AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2013

Crystal System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Neptune

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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