AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA TITAN RTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (280W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

TITAN RTX +189%

16.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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TITAN RTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1350 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

72

2816

Shading Units

4608

176

TMUs

288

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

509.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.62 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.31 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

509.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

280W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

TU102

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

TU102-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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