AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 28 nm process and based on the Pitcairn graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Model number

Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Nov 23rd, 2014

Family

Crystal System
(R9 M200)

Production

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

Bandwidth

174.7 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

31.20 GPixel/s

Texture fillrate

62.40 GTexel/s

FP32 (float) performance

1.997 TFLOPS

FP64 (double) performance

124.8 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

850 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units

1024

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

Compute Units

16

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

512 KB

Board Design

Slot Width

MXM Module

Thermal design power (TDP)

80 W

Display Connectors

No outputs

Power Connectors

None

Board Number

C608

API support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

Shader Model

5.1