AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 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 late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (244W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +256%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF110

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF110-380-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

Board Design

580W

TDP

244W

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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