GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GM200
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
November 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
947 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
151.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-