AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M330

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon R5 M330

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M330 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

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

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M330 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1030MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (18W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +203%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M330

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R5 M330

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2015

Crystal System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

955 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

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

320

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Exo

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Exo PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

18W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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