AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 630 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 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
2368 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
+1343%
4.849 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 630 OEM
0.336 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Apr 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
192
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
14.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
14.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GK107
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
GK107-301-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
