AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A570M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition Intel Arc A570M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A570M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A570M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1300MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Arc A570M +166%

5.325 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Arc A570M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Aug 2023

Crystal System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.20 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

166.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.65 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.325 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

DG2-256

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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