AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 405 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 3 years and 2 months late

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

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +10675%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 405 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce 405 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

16

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

25W

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 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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