NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp and AMD Radeon HD 8990 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp

  • Around 58% higher boost clock speed: 1582 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 375 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 3 GB
  • 5.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 255.521 vs 44.481
  • Around 32% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 2621.94 vs 1984.655
  • 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.26 vs 8.536
  • 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 1376.357 vs 470.237
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1582 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 375 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 255.521 vs 44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2621.94 vs 1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.26 vs 8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1376.357 vs 470.237

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

  • 3.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 125.504 vs 34.491
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 125.504 vs 34.491

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
255.521
44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2621.94
1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
21.26
8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
34.491
125.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1376.357
470.237
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 255.521 44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2621.94 1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.26 8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 34.491 125.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1376.357 470.237
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10550
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10550
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343
PassMark - G2D Mark 658
PassMark - G3D Mark 5214

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Essentials

Place in performance rating 318 320
Type Desktop Desktop
Architecture GCN 1.0
Code name Malta
Launch date 24 April 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $999

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1582 MHz 1000 MHz
CUDA cores 3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 375 Watt
Core clock speed 950 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPort, HDMI 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDCP

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 4.4 in
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 10.5 in 307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin + 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 547.7 GB/s 2x 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz

Technologies

GameStream
GPU Boost
SLI
VR Ready