Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
151.5
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126