GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Radeon R9 290
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 290

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 290
    275%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 290
    212%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750 Ti

215 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290

112% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 290

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290

The Radeon R9 290 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (9 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 290
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-400-A2)vsHawaii (Hawaii PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders640vs2560
Compute Units5vs40
Core clock1020 MHzvs947 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs40vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 290
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 290
TDP60 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs5 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    16.32 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    60.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    40.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    152.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    86.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    1305.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290
    4849.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    5610
  • Radeon R9 290
    15440

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    37
  • Radeon R9 290
    89

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    48
  • Radeon R9 290
    90

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    25
  • Radeon R9 290
    53

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 290
    80

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 290
    77

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    30
  • Radeon R9 290
    58

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    23
  • Radeon R9 290
    53

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 290
    61

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    34
  • Radeon R9 290
    83

FPS (higher is better)