AMD FirePro W6150M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W6150M AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W6150M 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

AMD FirePro W6150M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6150M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +20%

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro W6150M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Nov 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

16

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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