AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 290 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 28% higher core clock speed: 947 MHz vs 738 MHz
• 12.8x more texture fill rate: 151.5 GTexel / s vs 11.81 GTexel / s
• 80x more pipelines: 2560 vs 32
• 41.3x better floating-point performance: 4,849 gflops vs 117.5 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
• 5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1008 MHz
• 49.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8313 vs 169
• 9.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 775 vs 80
• 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 98.765 vs 38.948
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3711 vs 3689
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3354 vs 1731
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3711 vs 3689
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3354 vs 1731

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

• 5.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 275 Watt
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 179.899 vs 89.325
• Around 33% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1813.265 vs 1366.314
• Around 38% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 13.817 vs 10.034
• Around 40% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 757.451 vs 540.645

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8313 169
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	775 80
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	89.325 179.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1366.314 1813.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	10.034 13.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	98.765 38.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	540.645 757.451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3711 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3711 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 1731

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