AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +712%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730 OEM

0.693 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 730 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

384

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.216 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.86 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

692.7 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

64W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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