GeForce GTX TITAN Z vs Radeon R9 290X2

GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Radeon R9 290X2
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Jun 2014
Radeon R9 290X2
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN Z

205 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X2 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290X2

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX TITAN ZRadeon R9 290X2
GPU NameGK110B (GK110-430-B1)vsHawaii (Hawaii XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size561 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors7,080 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2880vs2816
Compute Units15vs44
Core clock705 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs240vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX TITAN ZRadeon R9 290X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bit x2vs512 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX TITAN ZRadeon R9 290X2
TDP375 wattsvs580 watts
Release Date28 May 2014vs24 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    352.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    692.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    11264.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better