NVIDIA NVS 300 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA NVS 300

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +12333%

4.849 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

NVS

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Hawaii

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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