Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 870M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 870M
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 870M
3552
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 870M
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii
N15P-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
March 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
-
967 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
941 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1344
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
2,599 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1344
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
108.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
Up to 2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
120.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
GDDR5
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
-
+
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+