NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal 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 X Pascal 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
TITAN X Pascal
+94%
10.97 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
480.4GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2816
224
TMUs
176
96
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
147.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
342.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
171.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
342.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
290W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP102
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP102-400-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
11.8 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
471 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
