AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 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 and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)
2576 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages
Lower TDP (204W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+695%
5.632 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 285
0.708 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Dec 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1242 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
159.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
2816
Shading Units
240
176
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.74 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
708.5 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
88.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
204W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GT200B
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
G200-350-B3
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
