Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2013 | Mar 2015 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | GeForce 900M |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Base Clock | 993 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1124 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Memory Bus | 512bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 320.0GB/s | 28.80GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 44 | |
| Shading Units | 2816 | 640 |
| TMUs | 176 | 40 |
| ROPs | 64 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 64 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 64.00 GPixel/s | 17.98 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 176.0 GTexel/s | 44.96 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 5.632 TFLOPS | 1439 GFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 704.0 GFLOPS | 44.96 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Hawaii | GM107 |
| GPU Variant | Hawaii XT(215-0852000) | N16P-GT |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Maxwell |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 6.2 billion | 1.87 billion |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 148 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 290W | 75W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 5.1 |
| CUDA | 5.0 | |