AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +576%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Nov 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

384

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.25 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

106.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GF110

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

GF110-040-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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