AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

2800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +12415%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 310 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 310 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

16

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT218

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GT218-300-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

31W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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