AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1366%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 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

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2816

Shading Units

128

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

197W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G92

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

324 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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