Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 560 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
3133
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GF114
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
947 MHz
822 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
1,263.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
384
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
52.67
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
2004 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
128.3 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