AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 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 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +3940%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GT 130 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2560

Shading Units

48

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G94B

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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