NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 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 780 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

Lower TDP (250W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +35%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

192

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Hawaii

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5300

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon RX 5300

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs ATI Radeon HD 4350 AGP

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD FirePro S9050

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs ATI Radeon HD 4750

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU