AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2808 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +28060%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 GE

0.02 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 9300 GE

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2816

Shading Units

8

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G98S

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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