NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

2800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 310 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +12415%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 310 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 300

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

333 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

5.328GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

44.86 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

31W

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Hawaii

GT218-300-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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