AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 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 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

2672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1148%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/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

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

106W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF106

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

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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