AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA NVS 315

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA NVS 315

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +5532%

5.632 TFLOPS

NVS 315

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVS 315

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Mar 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

19W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF119

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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