AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 290 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 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 5 month(s) later
• Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 151.5 GTexel / s vs 134 billion / sec
• Around 67% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1536
• Around 45% better floating-point performance: 4,849 gflops vs 3,333 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8210 vs 5939
• Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 763 vs 562
• 5.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 102277 vs 18068
• Around 79% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 89.325 vs 49.824
• Around 25% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1366.314 vs 1089.67
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 10.034 vs 4.899
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 98.765 vs 44.06
• 5.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 540.645 vs 103.884
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3711 vs 3690
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3711 vs 3690
• Around 72% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3699 vs 2155

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

• Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1046 MHz vs 947 MHz
• Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 230 Watt vs 275 Watt
• Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 5000 MHz
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 7412 vs 6300
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 7412 vs 6300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8210 5939
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	763 562
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	102277 18068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	89.325 49.824
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1366.314 1089.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	10.034 4.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	98.765 44.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	540.645 103.884
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6300 7412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3711 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6300 7412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3711 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	3699 2155

Compare specifications (specs)