NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 AMD Radeon R9 290X

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

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +417%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

336

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF114-325-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-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

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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