AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A370M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc A370M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
Intel Arc A370M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1550MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Arc A370M
+58%
3.174 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Mar 2022
Crystal System
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1550 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
1024
64
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.60 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
99.20 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.349 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.174 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
793.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
DG2-128
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
