AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +648%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010

0.752 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GT 1010

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1228 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

256

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.74 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

751.6 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.32 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP108

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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