GeForce GTX 780M vs Radeon R9 M290X

GeForce GTX 780M
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780M
Radeon R9 M290X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 9 Jan 2014
Radeon R9 M290X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 M290X

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 M290X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M290X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780MRadeon R9 M290X
GPU NameGK104 (N14E-GTX-A2)vsNeptune (Neptune XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1536vs1280
Compute Units8vs20
Core clock771 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780MRadeon R9 M290X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780MRadeon R9 M290X
TDP122 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date11 May 2013vs9 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    24.67 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 M290X
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    98.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 M290X
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    160.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 M290X
    153.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    2368.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 M290X
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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