NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 vs AMD Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 770 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 's Advantages
Boost Clock1085MHz
Lower TDP (230W vs 275W)
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 770
3.333 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290
+45%
4.849 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 770
2153
Radeon R9 290
+71%
3694
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 700
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1046 MHz
Base Clock
-
1085 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2560
128
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
34.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
138.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.333 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
138.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
275W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
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
GK104
GPU Name
Hawaii
GK104-425-A2
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
