Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc Pro B50
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2014 | Sep 2025 |
| Generation | Crystal System | Battlemage |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x8 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | 1700 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 975 MHz | 2600 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1365 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 16GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 174.7GB/s | 224.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 16 | |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 64 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 4 MB |
| RT Cores | 16 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 31.20 GPixel/s | 41.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 62.40 GTexel/s | 332.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.997 TFLOPS | 10.65 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 124.8 GFLOPS | 2.662 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 21.30 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Pitcairn | BMG-G21 |
| GPU Variant | Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Xe2 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistors | 2.8 billion | 19.6 billion |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 272 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 80W | 70W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1 |
| Power Connectors | None | None |
| Suggested PSU | 250 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.6 |