AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA NVS 1000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA NVS 1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM NVS 1000 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 28.51GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 1000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1740%

5.632 TFLOPS

NVS 1000

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVS 1000

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

192

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 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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