AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 330 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 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +2246%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 330 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GT 330 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2816

Shading Units

96

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

75W

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

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G92

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

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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