GeForce 310 OEM vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
2544 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 310 OEM
45
Radeon R9 290
+10675%
4849
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 300
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
333 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2560
8
TMUs
160
4
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.356 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
4.712 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
44.86 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
275W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Hawaii
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.3