NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2013
Nov 2013
Generation
GeForce 700
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
863 MHz
-
Boost Clock
902 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
512bit
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
2304
2560
TMUs
192
160
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
40

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
43.30 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
173.2 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.156 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
173.2 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK110B
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GK110-301-B1
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.08 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
561 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
250W
275W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.5
-
Shader Model
5.1
6.3

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