AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2014
Jun 2017
Generation
Crystal System
Radeon Pro
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
945 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
483.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
64
Shading Units
1024
4096
TMUs
64
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
819.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
26.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Vega 10 XTX AIR
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
300W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.