GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1380MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
706
Radeon R9 290
+586%
4849
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
543
Radeon R9 290
+580%
3694
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
2560
16
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
275W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
