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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2014 Nov 2021
Generation Crystal System Radeon Instinct
Type Mobile Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz 1700 MHz
Memory Clock 1365 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 128GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2e
Memory Bus 256bit 8192bit
Bandwidth 174.7GB/s 3277GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 220
Shading Units 1024 14080
TMUs 64 880
ROPs 32 0
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 31.20 GPixel/s 0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate 62.40 GTexel/s 1496 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.997 TFLOPS 47.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 124.8 GFLOPS 47.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 383.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Aldebaran
GPU Variant Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) Aldebaran XT
Architecture GCN 1.0 CDNA 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 58.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² Unknown
Board Design
TDP 80W 500W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power Connectors None 2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 900 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) N/A
OpenGL 4.6 N/A
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 5.1 N/A