AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +601%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

192

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF116

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

116W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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