AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 390X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 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, 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R9 390X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.7x more texture fill rate: 184.8 GTexel / s vs 50.6 billion / sec
11.7x more pipelines: 2816 vs 240
8.8x better floating-point performance: 5,914 gflops vs 673.9 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
9.1x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 896 MB
6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9363 vs 1378
13x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 819 vs 63
Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 3195
Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 3195

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 June 2015 vs 15 January 2009
Texture fill rate	184.8 GTexel / s vs 50.6 billion / sec
Pipelines	2816 vs 240
Floating-point performance	5,914 gflops vs 673.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 896 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9363 vs 1378
PassMark - G2D Mark	819 vs 63
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350 vs 3195
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350 vs 3195

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Around 26% lower typical power consumption: 219 Watt vs 275 Watt
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1134 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	219 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1134 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 390X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9363

1378

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

819

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3350

3195

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3350

3195

Name	AMD Radeon R9 390X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
PassMark - G3D Mark	9363	1378
PassMark - G2D Mark	819	63
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350	3195
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350	3195
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4242
Geekbench - OpenCL		23256

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 390X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Grenada	GT200B
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	18 June 2015	15 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$429	$249
Place in performance rating	269	1225
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$119.99
Value for money (0-100)		13.43
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz
Compute units	44
Floating-point performance	5,914 gflops	673.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2816	240
Stream Processors	2816
Texture fill rate	184.8 GTexel / s	50.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	275 Watt	219 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	1,400 million
Core clock speed		1404 MHz
CUDA cores		240
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	Two Dual Link DVI, 2x DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	275 mm	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.0
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	896 MB
Memory bandwidth	384 GB/s	127.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 bit	448 Bit
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	1134 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI