Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 730 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GT 730
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GT 730
860
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GT 730
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
268.8 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
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
11.2 GT/s
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A