R9 M290X Crossfire vs RX 570 Mobile

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated265
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code namePolaris 10 ProNeptune CF
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2017 (7 years old)1 March 2014 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$599.99 no data
Current price$246 (0.4x MSRP)no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20482560
Core clock speed926 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million2x 2800 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate154.4no data
Floating-point performance4,940 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 570 Mobile and Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire 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 sizelargelarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2x 4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed7000 MHz4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsno data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (FL 11_1)
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 5 January 2017 1 March 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 200 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570 Mobile and Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire. We've got no test results to judge.


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