Radeon R9 290 and GeForce 9300 GE - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce 9300 GE
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce 9300 GE
78
Radeon R9 290
GeForce 9300 GE
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Hawaii
G98
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
8
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
151.5
4.320
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A