AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 127.0GB/s)

2576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (219W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +805%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1134 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

448bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

127.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

240

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.72 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.64 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G92B

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G92-421-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

219W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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