AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 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 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

2448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +1235%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2560

Shading Units

112

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

G92B

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

260 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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