Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce FX 5900 XT - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X2
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Hawaii
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2014
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
4x 8-pin
1x Molex
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
-
Power consumption (TDP)
580 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
3.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5400 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
345.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A