AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M290X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 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 M290X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
• Around 11% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1152
• Around 70% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 170 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 65% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23514 vs 14286
• Around 36% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 51.022 vs 37.505
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 936.497 vs 864.402
• Around 82% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.62 vs 3.09
• Around 92% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 77.584 vs 40.457
• 3.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 258.046 vs 84.186

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

• Around 15% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 850 MHz
• Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 1033 MHz vs 900 MHz
• Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 94.1 billion / sec vs 72 GTexel / s
• Around 3% better floating-point performance: 2,378 gflops vs 2,304 gflops
• 5x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4794 vs 3256
• Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 529 vs 430
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6927 vs 6666
• Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3718 vs 2581
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 2526
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6927 vs 6666
• Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3718 vs 2581
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 2526

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M290X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3256 4794
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	430 529
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	23514 14286
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	51.022 37.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	936.497 864.402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.62 3.09
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	77.584 40.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	258.046 84.186
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6666 6927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2526 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6666 6927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2526 3357

Compare specifications (specs)