Radeon R7 M350 vs Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R7 M350 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 M350 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1015MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 M350
779
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+156%
1997
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Nov 2014
Gem System(R7 M300)
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1015 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
16
384
Shading Units
1024
24
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.120 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
24.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
779.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
779.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
48.72 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
80W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Meso
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Meso XT
(216-0864018)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GCN 3.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.55 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
125 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
