AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A770M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Arc A770M 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
Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)
Intel Arc A770M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1650MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Arc A770M
+577%
13.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
Crystal System
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
4096
64
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
211.2 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
422.4 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
27.03 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.52 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
120W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
DG2-512
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
406 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
