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AMD Radeon R9 290X vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 OEM
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the graphics cards, with AMD Radeon R9 290X on one side and Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 OEM on the other side. The first is dedicated to the desktop sector, it has 2816 shading units, a maximum frequency of 1.0 GHz, its lithography is 28 nm. The second is used on the desktop segment, it includes 288 shading units, a maximum frequency of 0.7 GHz, its lithography is 40 nm. The following table also compares the boost clock, the number of shading units (if indicated), of execution units, the amount of cache memory, the maximum memory capacity, the memory bus width, the release date, the number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in various benchmarks.
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Specification comparison:
| Graphics card | AMD Radeon R9 290X | Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 OEM | ||||||
| Market (main) | Desktop | Desktop | ||||||
| Release date | Q4 2013 | Q2 2011 | ||||||
| Model number | 215-0852000, Hawaii XT | GF114-200-KB-A1 | ||||||
| GPU name | Hawaii | GF114 | ||||||
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Fermi 2.0 | ||||||
| Generation | Volcanic Islands R9 200 | GeForce 500 | ||||||
| Lithography | 28 nm | 40 nm | ||||||
| Transistors | 6,200,000,000 | 3,000,000,000 | ||||||
| Bus interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | ||||||
| GPU base clock | 1,000 MHz | 736 MHz | ||||||
| GPU boost clock | 1,000 MHz | 736 MHz | ||||||
| Memory frequency | 1,250 MHz | 957 MHz | ||||||
| Effective memory speed | 5 Gbps | 3.8 Gbps | ||||||
| Memory size | 4 GB | 1 GB | ||||||
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | ||||||
| Memory bus | 512 bit | 192 bit | ||||||
| Memory bandwidth | 320.0 GB/s | 91.9 GB/s | ||||||
| TDP | 290 W | 150 W | ||||||
| Suggested PSU | 600W ATX Power Supply  | 450W ATX Power Supply | ||||||
| Multicard technology | - | SLI | ||||||
| Outputs | 2x DVI 1x HDMI 1x DisplayPort |
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI |
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| Cores (compute units, SM, SMX) | 44 | 6 | ||||||
| Shading units (cuda cores) | 2,816 | 288 | ||||||
| TMUs | 176 | 48 | ||||||
| ROPs | 64 | 24 | ||||||
| Cache memory | 1 MB | 384 KB | ||||||
| Pixel fillrate | 64.0 GP/s | 8.8 GP/s | ||||||
| Texture fillrate | 176.0 GT/s | 35.3 GT/s | ||||||
| Performance FP32 (float) | 5.6 TFLOPS | 847.9 GFLOPS | ||||||
| Performance FP64 (double) | 704 GFLOPS | 70.7 GFLOPS | ||||||
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Performance comparison with the benchmarks:
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench.
| FP32 Performance in GFLOPS | |
|---|---|
| AMD Radeon R9 290X |
5,632 |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 OEM |
847.9 |
The difference is 564%.
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average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.
average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.
Single precision floating point format, also known as FP32, is a computer number format that typically occupies 32 bits in PC memory. This represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values that employs a floating point.
See also:
AMD Radeon R9 290AMD Radeon R9 290X2Equivalence:
AMD Radeon R9 290X Nvidia equivalentNvidia GeForce GTX 555 OEM AMD equivalentDisclaimer:
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