AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTS 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

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +940%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTS

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9800M GTS

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Aug 2008

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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