Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
-
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1664
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
151.5
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0