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 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
GTX 970M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,280
0.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,280
0.0%
TMUs
80
80
0.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
20
—
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
6,144
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
120.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
100 W
—
TDP (W)
100
—
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Neptune
GM204
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
5,200 million
Die Size
212 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
13.1M / 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
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
GeForce 800M
Successor
Polaris Mobile
GeForce 10 Mobile