NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

  • 39.3x more texture fill rate: 85.44 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
  • 16.6x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 580 Watt
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 435 MHz
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2048
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 435 MHz
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 2x 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 434
PassMark - G3D Mark 6761
Geekbench - OpenCL 39800
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 2.0
Code name GA107S Hawaii
Place in performance rating 273 275
Launch date 24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz
Core clock speed 435 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 85.44 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2x 2816
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 580 Watt
Floating-point performance 2x 5,632 gflops
Transistor count 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 88.00 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5