Radeon Graphics 128SP vs R9 M290X Crossfire

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking327not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.43no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNeptune CFRaphael
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2014 (11 years ago)27 September 2022 (2 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 cores2560128
Core clock speed850 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors2x 2800 Million3,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data17.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data8
Ray Tracing Coresno data2

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2x 4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width2x 256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed4800 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataMotherboard Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2014 27 September 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 128SP has an age advantage of 8 years, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and Radeon Graphics 128SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire is a notebook card while Radeon Graphics 128SP is a desktop one.

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire
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