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AMD Radeon R9 290
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See full details| | Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 770 |
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Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| Radeon R9 290 N/A GeForce GTX 770 N/A | |
| crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012), Batman: Arkham City and 6 more | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Radeon R9 290 8.6 GeForce GTX 770 8.3 | |
| Passmark, 3DMark 11 Graphics, 3DMark Vantage Graphics and 3DMark06 | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| Radeon R9 290 8.3 GeForce GTX 770 8.6 | |
| Civilization 5 Texture Decomposition (2013) and Passmark Direct Compute | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| Radeon R9 290 8.2 GeForce GTX 770 8.6 | |
| TDP, Idle Noise Level, Load Noise Level, Idle Power Consumption and 1 more | |
GPUBoss Score | |
Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
| Radeon R9 290 8.4 GeForce GTX 770 8.4 | |
AMD Radeon R9 290GPUBoss Winner | | |
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| Significantly more memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 224 GB/s | Around 45% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 60.6 GPixel/s | vs | 33.5 GPixel/s | More than 80% higher pixel rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 4,800 GFLOPS | vs | 3,213 GFLOPS | Around 50% better floating-point performance | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 14,570 | vs | 11,310 | Around 30% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Significantly more energy-efficient idle power consumption | 87W | vs | 109W | More than 20% more energy-efficient idle power consumption | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Slightly better 3DMark06 score | 32,300 | vs | 29,690 | Around 10% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| More shading units | 2,560 | vs | 1,536 | 1024 more shading units | |||
| Significantly wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 256 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 152 GTexel/s | vs | 134 GTexel/s | Around 15% higher texture rate | |||
| More texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 128 | 32 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 91.5 fps | vs | 83.4 fps | Around 10% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
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| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | More than 40% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,046 MHz | vs | 947 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly more energy-efficient load power consumption | 246W | vs | 381W | More than 35% more energy-efficient load power consumption | |||
| Much quieter load noise level | 46.7 dB | vs | 57.2 dB | Around 20% quieter load noise level | |||
| Significantly higher turbo clock speed | 1,085 MHz | vs | 947 MHz | Around 15% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,125 MHz | More than 55% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Quieter idle noise level | 38.2 dB | vs | 39.5 dB | Around 5% quieter idle noise level | |||
| Better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | 395 | vs | 367 | Around 10% better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | |||
| Lower TDP | 230W | vs | 300W | Around 25% lower TDP | |||
| Radeon R9 290 | vs | GeForce GTX 770 | ||
| 9.4 | 9.6 | GeForce GTX 770 | |
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