AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 320 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)

2744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (43W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +2895%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 320 OEM

0.188 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 320 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Feb 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.28GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

2816

Shading Units

72

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.96 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

187.5 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

43W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT215

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GT215-250-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

144 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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