GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

CORE STATE Hawaii

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 580 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 125 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,278

geekbench_opencl

N/A

62,664

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

59,933

passmark_directx_10

N/A

65

passmark_directx_11

N/A

104

passmark_directx_12

N/A

50

passmark_directx_9

N/A

189

passmark_g2d

N/A

805

passmark_g3d

N/A

12,699

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

5,076

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 290X2

GTX 1660 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,816

1,408 -50.0%

Shaders

2,816

1,408 -50.0%

TMUs

176

88 -50.0%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

Compute Units

44

—

SM Count

—

22

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1530 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1785 MHz

GPU Clock

1000 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1350 MHz 5.4 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

512 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

345.6 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

85.68 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.632 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

704.0 GFLOPS (1:8)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

580 W

125 W

TDP (W)

580

125 -78.4%

Suggested PSU

950 W

300 W

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU116

Generation

Volcanic Islands (R9 200)

GeForce 16

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

6,200 million

6,600 million

Die Size

438 mm²

284 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

14.2M / mm²

23.2M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

7.5

Shader Model

6.5

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Triple-slot

Dual-slot

Length

—

229 mm 9 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,399 USD

229 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Sea Islands

GeForce 10

Successor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 20

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