AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +6157%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

32

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G96C

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

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 mini-DisplayPort

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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