AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA P106 090

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA P106 090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 3GB VRAM P106 090 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 192.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P106 090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +139%

5.632 TFLOPS

P106 090

2.352 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

P106 090

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.49 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.74 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.352 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.49 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP106

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP106-090-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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