AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +318%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

480

176

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF100

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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