Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta vs Radeon R9 390 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code nameGrenadaNV5 B5
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 September 2015 (9 years ago)22 March 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 no data

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 cores2560no data
Core clock speed1000 MHz100 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million15 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Wattno data
Texture fill rate160.00.2
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPSno data
ROPs642
TMUs1602

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 x16AGP 4x
Width3-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz133 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s1.064 GB/s

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 VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)6.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2015 22 March 1999
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 250 nm

R9 390 X2 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 51100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 792.9% more advanced lithography process.

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