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AMD Radeon R9 M290X: specs and benchmarks
- Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
- Core clock speed 850
- Max video memory 4096 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 1200
- Maximum resolution
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 M290X sales 7 January 2014. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Radeon R9 M290X's architecture, market segment and release date.
Place in performance rating | 372 | |
Value for money | 1.32 | |
Architecture | GCN (2011−2017) | |
GPU code name | Neptune | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 7 January 2014 (8 years ago) | |
Price now | $613 | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Technical specs
Radeon R9 M290X's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 M290X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 18432 (AD102) |
Compute units | 20 | |
Core clock speed | 850 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Boost clock speed | 900 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
Number of transistors | 2,800 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
Thermal design power (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
Texture fill rate | 72.00 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
Floating-point performance | 2,304 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 M290X's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size | large | |
Bus support | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M290X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type | GDDR5 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090) |
Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M290X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors | No outputs | |
Eyefinity | 1 |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 M290X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
AppAcceleration | - | |
Enduro | - | |
FreeSync | 1 | |
HD3D | + | |
PowerTune | + | |
DualGraphics | 1 | |
TrueAudio | - | |
ZeroCore | + | |
Switchable graphics | 1 |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 M290X, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | DirectX® 11 | |
Shader Model | 5.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | Not Listed | |
Mantle | + |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon R9 M290X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
- 3DMark Vantage Performance
- Unigine Heaven 3.0
- Passmark
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
3DMark Fire Strike Score
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Unigine Heaven 3.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 M290X. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 300 Mh/s |
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon R9 M290X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
Full HD | 48 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
Full HD
High Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Metro Exodus | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
1440p
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Metro Exodus | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
4K
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Metro Exodus | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 |
4K
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 M290X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 470M SLI, which is nearly equal in speed and is lower by 3 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R9 M290X:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R9 M290X according to our statistics.