Radeon R9 290 vs 280X |
Released November, 2013
AMD Radeon R9 290
- 947 MHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
6.9 Out of 10
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 October, 2013
Generic Radeon R9 280X
- 850 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
6.9 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!One memory chip remains uncooled, but its position is covered by the airflow the cooling assembly produces.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 290 vs R9 280X among Desktop GPUs
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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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| Much better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 38,650 | vs | 11,255 | Around 3.5x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
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| Better 3DMark06 score | 32,300 | vs | 28,452 | Around 15% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Better PassMark score | 7,049 | vs | 5,809 | More than 20% better PassMark score | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 14,570 | vs | 10,792 | More than 35% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 60.6 GPixel/s | vs | 32 GPixel/s | Around 90% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher clock speed | 947 MHz | vs | 850 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 288 GB/s | More than 10% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 3,072 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 4,800 GFLOPS | vs | 4,096 GFLOPS | More than 15% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher texture rate | 152 GTexel/s | vs | 128 GTexel/s | Around 20% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 51 | vs | 25.8 | Around 2x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| More shading units | 2,560 | vs | 2,048 | 512 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 128 | 32 more texture mapping units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 384 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
| More compute units | 40 | vs | 32 | 8 more compute units | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 71.97 | vs | 62.73 | Around 15% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 91.5 fps | vs | 73.9 fps | Around 25% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Better face detection score | 108.76 mPixels/s | vs | 95.72 mPixels/s | Around 15% better face detection score | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,000 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | 20% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Better manhattan score | 3,712.77 | vs | 3,317.04 | More than 10% better manhattan score | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,500 MHz | vs | 1,125 MHz | Around 35% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,677 | vs | 3,242 | Around 15% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Lower TDP | 250W | vs | 300W | More than 15% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 290 vs 280X
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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