
Radeon R9 290 and Tesla M40 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Tesla M40
Radeon R9 290
8336
Tesla M40
10687
Radeon R9 290
Tesla M40
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GM200
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
November 2013
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
-
1112 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
948 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
6,844 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
8,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
213.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
288.4 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
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3