NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN 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 TITAN 's Advantages

Boost Clock876MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX TITAN

4.709 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +19%

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX TITAN

2900

Radeon R9 290X +35%

3929

GeForce GTX TITAN

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Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Feb 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

836 MHz

Base Clock

-

876 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2688

Shading Units

2816

224

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

196.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.709 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1.570 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Hawaii

GK110-400-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

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

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