AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA P104 101

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM P104 101 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 256.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P104 101 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

Lower TDP (125W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

P104 101 +53%

8.617 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

P104 101

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

269.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

134.6 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.617 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

269.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP104-101-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

125W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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