NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 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 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1290MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +561%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

5120

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

80W

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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