Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2014 | Sep 2014 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | GeForce 900 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1350 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1127 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1216 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 512bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 345.6GB/s | 224.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 44 | |
| Shading Units | 2816 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 176 | 128 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 64.00 GPixel/s | 77.82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 176.0 GTexel/s | 155.6 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 5.632 TFLOPS | 4.981 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 704.0 GFLOPS | 155.6 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Hawaii | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | Hawaii XT(215-0852000) | GM204-400-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 6.2 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 580W | 165W |
| Suggested PSU | 950 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 4x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 6.4 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |