AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA CMP 30HX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA CMP 30HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 6GB VRAM CMP 30HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA CMP 30HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

CMP 30HX +3%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

CMP 30HX

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

TU116

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

TU116-100-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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