AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 OEM 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 211.2GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1046MHz

Lower TDP (170W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +100%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 760 OEM

2.812 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 760 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Nov 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1046 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1344

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.29 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

117.2 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.812 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

117.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

170W

950 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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