NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +564%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

957 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

91.87GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

24

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.832 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

35.33 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

847.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

70.66 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF114-200-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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