AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 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 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

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

2768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +5706%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

0.097 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.048 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.096 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

97.15 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

58W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT215

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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