2x AMD Radeon R9 M290X (4GB GDDR5, CrossFire)

2x AMD Radeon R9 M290X (4GB GDDR5, CrossFire) - benchmark tests, specifications and information

From: Simeon Nikolov 19 December 2014 / 13:47 | 1

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X, codenamed “Neptune XT”, is a high-end graphics chip, announced in early Q1 of 2014. It is part of the GCN (Graphics Core Next) generation and is constructed through a 28nm process. Its consists of 1280 Radeon cores, 80 texture cores and 32 raster cores.

All of them operate at 850MHz, but the Turbo clock functionality can increase that up to 900MHz based on the laptop’s cooling capacity.

The chip also has a 256bit bus and is available with either GDR3 or GDDR5 memory. AMD Radeon R9 M290X supports DirectX 11.2, Pixel Shader 5.0, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Zero Core and Power Gatinng. Memory bandwidth is 160GB/sec.

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Ranking	27
Manufacturing Process	28 nm
Architecture	GCN
Base frequency	850 MHz
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Frequency	1200 MHz
Memory bandwith	153,6 GB/sec

Released	Q1 2014
Power consumption	2х100 W
Cores	2x1280
Maximum frequency	900 MHz
Memory Capacity	2х4 GB
Memory bus	256-bit
Drivers	support.amd.com

Supported technologies	DirectX 11.2, Pixel Shader 5.0, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Zero Core, Power Gating.

Laptops with 2x AMD Radeon R9 M290X (4GB GDDR5, CrossFire)

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Alienware 18

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