Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290X2

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GK104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2014

April 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

1006 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 5,632 gflops

3,250 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

195 Watt

Texture fill rate

176.0

135.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

6008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

345.6 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126