AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2004

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

NV41

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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