AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 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 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

2672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +1024%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 545 OEM

0.501 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 545 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

2816

Shading Units

144

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.226 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.90 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

501.4 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

105W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF116

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF116-110-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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