Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 440 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GT 440
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GT 440
793
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GT 440
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
February 2011
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
311.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
96
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
151.5
13.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)
Standard memory config per GPU
-
1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMIVGADual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A