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AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1590MHz
Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290 +70%
4.849 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
2.849 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290 +3%
3694
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
3566

Graphics Card

Nov 2013
Release Date
Apr 2020
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1590 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s

Render Config

40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
2560
Shading Units
896
160
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
50.88 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
89.04 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.699 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.849 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
89.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii
GPU Name
TU117
Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)
GPU Variant
TU117-300-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
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