Radeon R9 290 and GeForce MX330 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce MX330

Radeon R9 290

8336

GeForce MX330

2516

Radeon R9 290

GeForce MX330

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Hawaii

N17S-LP / N17S-G3

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2013

February 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1594 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

1531 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

384

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

25 Watt (12 - 25 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

151.5

38.26

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

Optimus