AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1836 points
2% slightly better overall score
1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

45 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
22 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3987 points
40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2833 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43067 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
21004 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48969 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
21940 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
23273 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
24865 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed
902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
6 GiB
49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320 GB/s
10% slightly higher memory bandwidth
288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
Identical
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s
47% significantly higher pixel rate
43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s
1% slightly higher texture rate
173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS
35% slightly better floating point performance
4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
22% slightly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
192
9% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
33% slightly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 604
226th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

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