AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 152.0GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 's Advantages

Lower TDP (210W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +329%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

1.312 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

448

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.50 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.99 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1312 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF110

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF110-270-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

210W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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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