GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R9 M290X
CORE STATE
Neptune
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 480
CORE STATE
GF100
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
GTX 480
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
480
-62.5%
Shaders
1,280
480
-62.5%
TMUs
80
60
-25.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
20
—
SM Count
—
15
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
—
Boost Clock
900 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
701 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1401 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
1,536
-62.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
21.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
1,345.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
Power
TDP
100 W
250 W
TDP (W)
100
250
+150.0%
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Neptune
GF100
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
GeForce 400
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
3,100 million
Die Size
212 mm²
529 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
CUDA
—
2.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
GeForce 200
Successor
Polaris Mobile
GeForce 500