AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1462MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +19%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

727 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2304

176

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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