NVIDIA NVS 315 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA NVS 315 AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 315

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +5532%

5.632 TFLOPS

NVS 315

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

NVS

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

14.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

48

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.046 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

4.184 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

100.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

8.368 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF119-825-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

290W

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 Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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