AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 3100M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM NVS 3100M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
1008 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 3100M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
+4074%
1.962 TFLOPS
NVS 3100M
0.047 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jan 2010
Crystal System
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1024
Shading Units
16
64
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
30.66 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
61.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.962 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
46.98 GFLOPS
122.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
14W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GT218
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
N10M-NS
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
