AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA TITAN Xp

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA TITAN Xp

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN Xp 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (547.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

TITAN Xp +150%

12.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

TITAN Xp +174%

10128

Radeon R9 290

VS

TITAN Xp

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1405 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1426 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

547.6GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2560

Shading Units

3840

160

TMUs

240

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

151.9 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

379.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

189.8 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.15 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

379.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

GP102-450-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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