Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs R7 (Carrizo)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking947not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.98no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameCarrizoPitcairn
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2015 (10 years ago)23 November 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5121024
Core clock speedno data850 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz975 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data62.40
Floating-point processing powerno data1.997 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
L1 Cacheno data256 KB
L2 Cacheno data512 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1365 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data174.7 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 23 November 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 80 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 6 months, and 566.7% lower power consumption.

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