AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5200M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
928 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 5200M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+732%
1.997 TFLOPS
NVS 5200M
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jun 2012
Crystal System
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
975 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1024
Shading Units
96
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
20.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GF117
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
N13M-NS1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
