AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 350M 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 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +732%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 350M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTS 350M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT215

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N11E-GE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

28W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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