GPUs

AMD Radeon R9 M290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Full Specs

1,024 Shaders
975MHz
384 Shaders
950MHz
4GB GDDR5174.7GB/s
512MB GDDR580GB/s
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2 TFLOPS
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729.6 GFLOPS
Form Factor
Soldered
Form Factor
Soldered
TDP
80W
TDP
50W

Clock Speed
···
Clock Speed
··
Peak OPS
2 TFLOPSFP32
Peak OPS
729.6 GFLOPSFP32
FP32
2 TFLOPS
FP32
729.6 GFLOPS
FP64
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64
30.4 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate
31.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
15.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.4 GTexel/s

Shaders
1,024 Shaders
Shaders
384 Shaders
TMUs
64 TMUs
TMUs
32 TMUs
ROPs
32 ROPs
ROPs
16 ROPs
CUs
16 CUs
SMs
2 SMs

Base Clock
850MHz
Base Clock
-
Boost Clock
975MHz
Boost Clock
950MHz

L2 Cache
512KB shared
L2 Cache
256KB shared

4GB GDDR5
512MB GDDR5
Memory Bus
256-bit
Memory Bus
128-bit
Memory Speed
5.5GT/s
Memory Speed
5GT/s
Memory Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
80GB/s
ECC
No
ECC
No

TDP
80W
TDP
50W

Multi-Monitor
3
Multi-Monitor
2

Encoder Model
VCE 1.0
Encoder Model
NVENC 1
Codec
AVC (H.264)
Codec
AVC (H.264)

Decoder Model
UVD 4.0
Decoder Model
NVDEC 1
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
VC-1
AVC (H.264)
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
VC-1
AVC (H.264)

Form Factor
Soldered
Form Factor
Soldered

Manufacturer
Manufacturer
Chip Designer
Chip Designer
Architecture
Architecture
Family
Family
Branding
Radeon 2013 branding
Branding
GeForce 2006 branding
Codename
Pitcairn
Codename
NVE7
Chip Variant
Pitcairn Pro
Chip Variant
-
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
May 31, 2014
Release Date
Mar 22, 2012

Foundry
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
Fabrication Node
28nm
Fabrication Node
28nm
Die Size
212mm²
Die Size
118mm²
Transistor Count
2.8 Billion
Transistor Count
1.3 Billion
Transistor Density
13.21 MTr/mm²
Transistor Density
10.76 MTr/mm²