NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +383%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

480

Shading Units

2816

60

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

290W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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