AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +805%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

240

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT200

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

236W

950 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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