NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile 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 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1560MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
+699%
15.97 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
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
1110 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1560 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
40
SM Count
-
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
124.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
249.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
15.97 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
249.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
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
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
