AMD Radeon R9 M290X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M290X sales 9 January 2014. This is GCN 1.0 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 19.85 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 M290X's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

170

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Code name

Neptune

Type

Laptop

Release date

9 January 2014

Technical specs

Radeon R9 M290X's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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

1280

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compute units

Core clock speed

850 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

900 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

2,800 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

72.00

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 specs

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 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M290X.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Eyefinity

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.

FreeSync

HD3D

PowerTune

DualGraphics

ZeroCore

Switchable graphics

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 M290X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 11

OpenGL

4.4

of 4.6

OpenCL

Not Listed

Mantle

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 M290X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

19.65

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

33147

3DMark Fire Strike Score

4793

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

5294

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

6817

3DMark Vantage Performance

23961

Unigine Heaven 3.0

Passmark

4001

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 M290X. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

300 Mh/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good Radeon R9 M290X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.05

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Far Cry 4 (2014)

low / 768p

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Sims 4 (2014)

low / 768p

112

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Battlefield 4 (2013)

low / 768p

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

Crysis 3 (2013)

low / 768p

108

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

Dota 2 (2013)

low / 768p

118

medium / 768p

115

ultra / 1080p

103

Tomb Raider (2013)

low / 768p

288

medium / 768p

194

high / 768p

137

ultra / 1080p

X-Plane 10.25 (2013)

low / 768p

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

101.86 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

100.71 %

AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile

100.35 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M SLI

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

98.49 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M SLI

97.23 %

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

97.08 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M SLI

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 M290X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 285M SLI, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.