AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 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 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +35%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2304

176

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK110B

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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