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| Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 780 |
Released November, 2013
AMD Radeon R9 290
- 947 MHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
by techPowerUp!NVIDIA's GTX 780, which has seen a price drop down to $500 last week suddenly looks really expensive, but it does run cooler and quieter; not sure if that's worth the extra $100.
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Released May, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780
- 863 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
by techPowerUp!While the technical aspects of the cooler are certainly nice, it cannot compete with NVIDIA's reference design cooler visually, which is without a doubt the best-looking one in the industry.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 290 vs 780 among Desktop GPUs
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more |
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T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more |
Computing | |
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Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more |
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TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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Higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 288.4 GB/s | More than 10% higher memory bandwidth | |||
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Higher clock speed | 947 MHz | vs | 863 MHz | Around 10% higher clock speed | |||
More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 3,072 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
Higher pixel rate | 60.6 GPixel/s | vs | 41.4 GPixel/s | More than 45% higher pixel rate | |||
Better floating-point performance | 4,800 GFLOPS | vs | 3,977 GFLOPS | More than 20% better floating-point performance | |||
More render output processors | 64 | vs | 48 | 16 more render output processors | |||
Wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 384 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
More shading units | 2,560 | vs | 2,304 | 256 more shading units | |||
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Better PassMark score | 7,976 | vs | 7,049 | Around 15% better PassMark score | |||
Better 3DMark06 score | 35,080 | vs | 32,300 | Around 10% better 3DMark06 score | |||
Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,008 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | More than 20% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 42,870 | vs | 38,650 | More than 10% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
Significantly better particle simulation score | 966.29 mInteraction/s | vs | 483.87 mInteraction/s | Around 2x better particle simulation score | |||
More texture mapping units | 192 | vs | 160 | 32 more texture mapping units | |||
Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,125 MHz | Around 35% higher memory clock speed | |||
Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,971 | vs | 3,242 | More than 20% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
Lower TDP | 250W | vs | 300W | More than 15% lower TDP |
Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 780
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
Radeon R9 290
7,049
GeForce GTX 780
7,976
3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance
Radeon R9 290
14,570
GeForce GTX 780
14,020
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
545.44 mHash/s
GeForce GTX 780
255.31 mHash/s
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
108.61 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 780
57.69 mPixels/s
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
1,366.31 frames/s
GeForce GTX 780
1,928.62 frames/s
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
483.87 mInteraction/s
GeForce GTX 780
966.29 mInteraction/s
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
-1 frames/s
GeForce GTX 780
7 frames/s
Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
113.22 frames/s
GeForce GTX 780
91.16 frames/s
Reviews Word on the street
Radeon R9 290 | vs | GeForce GTX 780 | ||
![]() | 9.4 | 9.3 | Radeon R9 290 |
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