AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

TITAN X Pascal +126%

10.97 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

TITAN X Pascal +159%

9576

Radeon R9 290

VS

TITAN X Pascal

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1417 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

480.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

96

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

147.0 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

342.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

171.5 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.97 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

342.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP102

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GP102-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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