AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +24%

5.632 TFLOPS

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2816

Shading Units

1280

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

438 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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