NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +679%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

240

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Hawaii

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

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 Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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