AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1335MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q +105%

4.101 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Apr 2019

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 16 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1335 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.08 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.202 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.101 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU116

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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