Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 330 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

GeForce GT 330 OEM

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GT215

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

February 2010

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

257.28 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

17.28

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

1580 MBps

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

25.28 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.3

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A