AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA A2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Nov 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1563 MHz
Base Clock
—
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1770 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
200.1GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
—
Shading Units
2816
1280
TMUs
176
40
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
10
Tensor Cores
—
40
RT Cores
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
56.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GA107
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
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Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
438 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
290W
60W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.