AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 7550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7550M 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (975MHz vs 550MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +353%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7550M

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7550M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

Crystal System

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

450 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

550 MHz

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

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

5

1024

Shading Units

400

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Thames

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Thames LP

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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