NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 2

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Hawaii

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Celsius

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

12 (12_0)

1.5

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

Shader Model

6.3

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