AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M290X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M290X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 15% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 736 MHz
• 2x more texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 35.3 GTexel / s
• 4.4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 288
• 2.7x better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 847.9 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3263 vs 1572
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6666 vs 2879
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6666 vs 2879

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

• 3.2x more memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 447 vs 426
• Around 17% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27378 vs 23500
• Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3372 vs 2581
• Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3322 vs 2526
• Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3372 vs 2581
• Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3322 vs 2526

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M290X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3263 1572
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	426 447
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	23500 27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6666 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2526 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6666 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2526 3322

Compare specifications (specs)