AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 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 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 152.0GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (219W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +300%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 570

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Dec 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

2816

Shading Units

480

176

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

219W

950 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF110

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

520 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

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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