AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

Lower TDP (165W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +13%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Sep 2014

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

1216 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

165W

950 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GM204

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

398 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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