Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Pro V520

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking172not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.84no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 12Pitcairn
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 December 2020 (3 years ago)23 November 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23041024
Core clock speed1000 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz975 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate230.462.40
Floating-point processing power7.373 TFLOPS1.997 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs14464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1365 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s174.7 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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 outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.55.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.21.2
Vulkan1.21.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2020 23 November 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 80 Watt

Pro V520 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

R9 M290X Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 181.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro V520 and Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro V520 is a workstation card while Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition is a notebook one.


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