AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +133%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GM206

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

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

Board Design

580W

TDP

120W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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