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
GeForce GTX 950
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1188 MHz
TDP
90 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
GTX 950
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
768
-40.0%
Shaders
1,280
768
-40.0%
TMUs
80
48
-40.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
20
—
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1653 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
100 W
90 W
TDP (W)
100
90
-10.0%
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Neptune
GM206
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
GeForce 900
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
2,940 million
Die Size
212 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
202 mm
8 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
159 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
GeForce 700
Successor
Polaris Mobile
GeForce 10