GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R9 M290X
CORE STATE
Neptune
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon Vega 3
CORE STATE
Picasso
VRAM
System Shared
CLOCK SPEED
1100 MHz
TDP
15 W
BUS WIDTH
System Shared
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
Vega 3
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
192
-85.0%
Shaders
1,280
192
-85.0%
TMUs
80
12
-85.0%
ROPs
32
4
-87.5%
Compute Units
20
3
-85.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
System Shared
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
System Shared
VRAM (MB)
4,096
—
Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
256 bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
System Dependent
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
4.400 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
13.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
422.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
26.40 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
844.8 GFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
100 W
15 W
TDP (W)
100
15
-85.0%
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Neptune
Picasso
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Vega IGP
(Picasso)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
4,940 million
Die Size
212 mm²
210 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
13.2M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Motherboard Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
GCN 3.0 IGP
Successor
Polaris Mobile
Vega II IGP