AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2014
Aug 2020
Generation
Crystal System
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1187 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1757 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
24
Shading Units
1024
1536
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
56.22 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
168.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
5.398 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
337.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.80 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Navi 14
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Navi 14 PRO XL
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
6.4 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
158 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
125W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.5