AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 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 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

2320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (204W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +584%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 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

1242 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2560

Shading Units

240

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

204W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT200B

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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