Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2014 Mar 2019
Generation Crystal System Polaris
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz 1074 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz 1226 MHz
Memory Clock 1365 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 174.7GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 28
Shading Units 1024 1792
TMUs 64 112
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 31.20 GPixel/s 39.23 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 62.40 GTexel/s 137.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.997 TFLOPS 4.394 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 124.8 GFLOPS 274.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 4.394 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Ellesmere
GPU Variant Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) Polaris 10 LE1
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 80W 150W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4