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
GPU
Arc A550M
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2050 MHz
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
—
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
A550M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
2,048
+60.0%
Shaders
1,280
2,048
+60.0%
TMUs
80
128
+60.0%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
20
—
Execution Units
—
256
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
2050 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
8,192
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
131.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
262.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
8.397 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
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FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
16.79 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
16
XMX Cores
—
256
Power
TDP
100 W
60 W
TDP (W)
100
60
-40.0%
Power Connectors
None
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Neptune
DG2-512
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Alchemist
(Arc 5 Mobile)
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
21,700 million
Die Size
212 mm²
406 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
53.4M / 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
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
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Successor
Polaris Mobile
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