AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +84%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290 +126%

3684

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

1627

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1344

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK104

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GK104-300-KD-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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