AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (244W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +206%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 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

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

244W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF110

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GF110-380-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

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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