AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1257%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 545

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GT 545

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

2816

Shading Units

144

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

70W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF116

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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