AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +10675%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 315 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce 315 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2560

Shading Units

16

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

33W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT218

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GT218-300-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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