AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 640MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +1993%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

640MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

112

176

TMUs

28

64

ROPs

20

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

80 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G80

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

150W

950 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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