AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 555 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 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +564%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 555 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

957 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

288

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

150W

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

GF114-200-KB-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

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