Product Compare
NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2022 | Nov 2013 |
| Generation | Ampere-MW | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Professional | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 832 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1537 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 64bit | 512bit |
| Bandwidth | 96.00GB/s | 320.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 16 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2560 |
| TMUs | 64 | 160 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | |
| RT Cores | 16 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 1024 KB |
| Compute Units | 40 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 49.18 GPixel/s | 60.61 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 98.37 GTexel/s | 151.5 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 6.296 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 6.296 TFLOPS | 4.849 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 98.37 GFLOPS | 606.1 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA107S | Hawaii |
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 8.7 billion | 6.2 billion |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 438 mm² |
| GPU Variant | Hawaii PRO(215-0852020) | |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 30W | 275W |
| Outputs | Portable Device Dependent | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 6.3 |