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AMD Radeon R9 M290X: specs and benchmarks

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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 19.74 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

176

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 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Compute units

Core clock speed

850 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Boost Clock

900 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

2,800 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

72 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

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 benchmark 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

19.55

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

4000

Mining hashrates

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

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

FPS tests

Real world test results of Dota 2 on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

118

medium / 768p

115

ultra / 1080p

103

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Dragon Age: Inquisition official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum GeForce 8800 GT

recommended GeForce GTX 660

FPS tests

Real world test results of Dragon Age: Inquisition on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

132

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Far Cry 4

2014

Official system requirements

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Far Cry 4 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum Radeon HD 5850

recommended GeForce GTX 680

FPS tests

Real world test results of Far Cry 4 on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Sims 4

2014

Official system requirements

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Sims 4 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum GeForce 6600

FPS tests

Real world test results of Sims 4 on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

112

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Battlefield 4

2013

Official system requirements

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Battlefield 4 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum GeForce 8800 GT

recommended GeForce GTX 660

FPS tests

Real world test results of Battlefield 4 on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

Crysis 3

2013

Official system requirements

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Crysis 3 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum GeForce GTS 450

recommended Radeon HD 5870

FPS tests

Real world test results of Crysis 3 on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

108

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

Tomb Raider

2013

Official system requirements

Radeon R9 M290X performance compared to Tomb Raider official system requirements.

Radeon R9 M290X

minimum GeForce 8800 GT

recommended Radeon HD 5870

FPS tests

Real world test results of Tomb Raider on Radeon R9 M290X.

low / 768p

288

medium / 768p

194

high / 768p

137

ultra / 1080p

Relative perfomance

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

102.38 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

102.28 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI

101.62 %

AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

99.29 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M

97.82 %

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

97.62 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M SLI

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 M290X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 775M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.