AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Aug 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GRID
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
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Shading Units
2560
1536
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
46.21 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM204
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
GM204-995-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
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5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.