AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 7600 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 290W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 7600 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.480 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.720 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

40W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G73

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G73-VZ-N-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.177 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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