NVIDIA TITAN RTX vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA TITAN RTX

AMD Radeon R9 290X

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (280W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

TITAN RTX +189%

16.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

TITAN RTX +285%

15148

Radeon R9 290X

3925

TITAN RTX

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

672.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

72

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

2816

288

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

32.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

509.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

280W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU102-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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