AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +12415%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2816

Shading Units

16

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

50W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT218

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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