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AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon R9 290X based on its benchmarks.
See full details | Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GTX 780 |
Gaming | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more |
Graphics | |
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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 |
Performance per Watt | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more |
Value | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more |
Noise and Power | |
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TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more |
7.5 | Overall Score |
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Much better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 32,271 | vs | 14,020 | More than 2.2x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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Better floating-point performance | 5,632 GFLOPS | vs | 3,977 GFLOPS | More than 40% better floating-point performance | |||
Higher clock speed | 1,000 MHz | vs | 863 MHz | More than 15% higher clock speed | |||
Higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 288.4 GB/s | More than 10% higher memory bandwidth | |||
Higher pixel rate | 64 GPixel/s | vs | 41.4 GPixel/s | Around 55% higher pixel rate | |||
More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 3,072 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
More render output processors | 64 | vs | 48 | 16 more render output processors | |||
More shading units | 2,816 | vs | 2,304 | 512 more shading units | |||
Wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 384 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
Higher turbo clock speed | 1,000 MHz | vs | 902 MHz | More than 10% higher turbo clock speed | |||
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Much better 3DMark06 score | 35,080 | vs | 16,167.5 | Around 2.2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,008 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | More than 20% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
Slightly better PassMark score | 7,976 | vs | 7,331 | Around 10% better PassMark score | |||
Higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,250 MHz | More than 20% higher memory clock speed | |||
Better particle simulation score | 966.29 mInteraction/s | vs | 821.28 mInteraction/s | Around 20% better particle simulation score | |||
More texture mapping units | 192 | vs | 176 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,971 | vs | 3,510 | Around 15% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
Lower TDP | 250W | vs | 300W | More than 15% lower TDP |
Radeon R9 290X | vs | GeForce GTX 780 | ||
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