AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 X2 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 192.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1072MHz

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +128%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 760 X2

2.47 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 760 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1072 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1152

176

TMUs

96

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

25.73 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.9 GTexel/s

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5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.470 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GK104-225-A2

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

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