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
GEFORCE
A2
CORE STATE
GA107
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1770 MHz
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
A2
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,280
0.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,280
0.0%
TMUs
80
40
-50.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
20
—
SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1770 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1563 MHz
12.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
16,384
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
200.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
56.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
70.80 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
4.531 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
10
Tensor Cores
—
40
Power
TDP
100 W
60 W
TDP (W)
100
60
-40.0%
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Neptune
GA107
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
8,700 million
Die Size
212 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.2M / mm²
43.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Single-slot
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
Quadro Turing
Successor
Polaris Mobile
Workstation Ada