NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1125MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh +159%

5.184 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

162.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

10.37 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.184 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

162.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106B

GPU Name

Pitcairn

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GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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