AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN Z to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock876MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +11%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN Z

5.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

705 MHz

-

Boost Clock

876 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2880

176

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.56 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

210.2 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.046 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.682 TFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK110B

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GK110-350-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

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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