NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1260MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile +836%

18.71 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

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

810 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1260 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

58

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

7424

Shading Units

1024

232

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

232

Tensor Cores

-

58

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

292.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

18.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

292.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GN20-E8-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

496 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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