AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points

2374 points

23% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

51 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

34 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3987 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3376 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43067 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48969 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

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

336.6 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

14% slightly higher pixel rate

55.68 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

5.34 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

2880

2% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

240

36% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

220th of 604

189th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 290X graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon R9 290X has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the Radeon R9 290X and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 290X is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.