AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +1152%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

May 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

128

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G80

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

171W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

2

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

3

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

4

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

5

AMD Radeon RX 7990 XTX vs AMD Radeon R9 290

6

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

7

AMD Radeon R7 435 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

8

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

9

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 4855

10

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

Related News

1

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

2

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

3

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

4

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

5

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

6

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

7

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

8

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

9

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

10

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs