AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 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 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 152.0GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (219W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +245%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Dec 2010

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

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

480

160

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF110

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

219W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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