
Radeon R9 290 and GeForce 310M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce 310M
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce 310M
118
Radeon R9 290
GeForce 310M
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Hawaii
N11M-GE1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
January 2010
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
606 / 625 MHz
CUDA cores
-
16
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
48.96 gflops
Gigaflops
-
73
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
16
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
14 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
4.848
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Power management
-
8.0