GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

28,243

13,595

geekbench_opencl

24,008

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 M290X

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,664 +30.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,664 +30.0%

TMUs

80

104 +30.0%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

20

—

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

100 W

148 W

TDP (W)

100

148 +48.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Neptune

GM204

Generation

Gem System (R9 M200)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

5,200 million

Die Size

212 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

GeForce 700

Successor

Polaris Mobile

GeForce 10

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