NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 580 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 4 GB
Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.26 vs 19.441

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 580 Watt
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2x 4 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.26 vs 19.441

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

21.26

19.441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	255.521
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2621.94
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.26	19.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	34.491
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1376.357
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Place in performance rating	305	302
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Architecture		GCN 2.0
Code name		Hawaii
Launch date		24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1582 MHz
CUDA cores	3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	580 Watt
Core clock speed		1000 MHz
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		2x 2816
Texture fill rate		2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count		6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPort, HDMI	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x 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
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin + 8-pin	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	547.7 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz
Technologies
GameStream
GPU Boost
SLI
VR Ready