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Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce 945M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce 945M

Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce 945M
2171

Radeon R9 M290X

GeForce 945M


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Neptune
GM107

Market segment
Laptop
Laptop

Release date
January 2014
March 2015

Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors
None
None

Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1045 MHz

Compute units
20
-

Core clock speed
850 MHz
928 MHz

Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
953.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
512

Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt

Texture fill rate
72.00
40.80

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
28.8 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs

Eyefinity
1
-

DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
+
-

OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2

OpenGL
4.4
4.5

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
-
1.1.126

AppAcceleration
-
-

DualGraphics
1
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

GameWorks
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

HD3D
+
-

Optimus
-
+

PowerTune
+
-

Switchable graphics
1
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
+
-