AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 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 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
2480 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+438%
5.632 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Sep 2011
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
2816
Shading Units
336
176
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
160W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GF114
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
332 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
