AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 GM206

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 GM206

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 750 GM206 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 GM206 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1239MHz

Lower TDP (60W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +343%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 750 GM206

1.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 750 GM206

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Nov 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1087 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1239 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.65 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.65 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1269 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

39.65 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

60W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GM206

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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