AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Mar 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900A
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1001 MHz
Base Clock
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993 MHz
Boost Clock
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1124 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
32.03GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
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Shading Units
2816
640
TMUs
176
40
ROPs
64
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
17.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM107
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
N16P-GT
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
290W
75W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
CUDA
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5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.