AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 's Advantages

Boost Clock1032MHz

Lower TDP (134W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +255%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

1.585 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.51 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.05 GTexel/s

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5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.585 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

66.05 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

134W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK106

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GK106-240-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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