AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN Z 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 336.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z 's Advantages

Boost Clock876MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (375W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +11%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN Z

5.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

May 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

705 MHz

-

Boost Clock

876 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2880

176

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.56 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

210.2 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.046 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.682 TFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

375W

950 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK110B

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GK110-350-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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