AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition 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 7 years late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

Crystal System

Generation

M5x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.592 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.592 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M56

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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