AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2014
Sep 2015
Generation
Crystal System
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1064 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1140 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
-
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
72.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
4.669 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GM204
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
N16E-GXX-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
-
5.2