Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 960A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 960A
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 960A
3167
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 960A
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
March 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
1085 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1029 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
640
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
43.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
5.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126