AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample 's Advantages

Boost Clock928MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample +10%

5.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

875 MHz

-

Boost Clock

928 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2880

160

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.345 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK180

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GK180-425-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.175

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CUDA

3.5

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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