GeForce 9100 vs Radeon R9 290

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking256not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.89no data
Power efficiency5.50no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameHawaiiC78
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 November 2013 (10 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores256016
Core clock speed947 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate151.54.000
Floating-point processing power4.849 TFLOPS0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs1608

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length275 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width512 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.34.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

R9 290 8093
+9891%
GeForce 9100 81

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 November 2013 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 40 Watt

R9 290 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 9100, on the other hand, has 587.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290 and GeForce 9100. We've got no test results to judge.


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