Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M290X |
| 150 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Ti . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 Ti |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 M290X | | GeForce GTX 780 Ti | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Neptune (Neptune XT) | vs | GK110B (GK110-425-B1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 561 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 7,080 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 2880 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 15 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 875 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 240 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 M290X | | GeForce GTX 780 Ti | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 M290X | | GeForce GTX 780 Ti | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Jan 2014 | vs | 7 Nov 2013 |
Radeon R9 M290X
28.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
52.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 M290X
72.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
210.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 M290X
153.60 GB/s
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
336.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 M290X
2304.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
5040.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better