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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation 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
Lower TDP (80W vs 110W)
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
1.962 TFLOPS
RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation +1159%
24.72 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

May 2015
Release Date
Mar 2023
Crystal System
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1290 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s

Render Config

16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
58
1024
Shading Units
7424
64
TMUs
232
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
61.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
386.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.72 TFLOPS
1.962 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
24.72 TFLOPS
122.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
386.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W
TDP
110W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn
GPU Name
AD104
Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
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