NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 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 560 Ti X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +271%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

8

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

54.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

108.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

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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