GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4156

Radeon R9 290 +16%

4849

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

Radeon R9 290 +31%

3684

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

2304

Shading Units

2560

192

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Hawaii

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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