AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +422%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF100

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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

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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