AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 OEM 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1046MHz
Lower TDP (170W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+100%
5.632 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 760 OEM
2.812 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Nov 2016
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
993 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1046 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
1344
176
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.29 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
117.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.812 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
117.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
170W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GK104
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
294 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
