AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +283%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

1.263 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

2560

Shading Units

384

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.17 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.67 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1263 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF114

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

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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