NVIDIA RTX A1000 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1462MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A1000 +19%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX A1000

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Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

727 MHz

Base Clock

-

1462 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2304

Shading Units

2816

72

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

105.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

6.737 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.737 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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