AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1785MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +208%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1740 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

75W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

TU117

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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