Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
March 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
947 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
192
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
25.06
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
3608 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
57.73 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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