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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2014 Jun 2014
Generation Crystal System Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz
Memory Clock 1365 MHz 1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 512bit
Bandwidth 174.7GB/s 345.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 44
Shading Units 1024 2816
TMUs 64 176
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 31.20 GPixel/s 64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 62.40 GTexel/s 176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.997 TFLOPS 5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 124.8 GFLOPS 704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Hawaii
GPU Variant Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 6.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 438 mm²
Board Design
TDP 80W 580W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 4x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 950 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.3