NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN X 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 TITAN X 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1089MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX TITAN X +18%

6.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN X

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1089 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

3072

Shading Units

2816

192

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

104.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

209.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

6.691 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

209.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Hawaii

GM200-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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