NVIDIA TITAN V vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA TITAN V 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 - 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 NVIDIA TITAN V

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 32% better floating-point performance: 14,899 gflops vs 2x 5,632 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 4 GB
  • Around 59% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 30.857 vs 19.441
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 December 2017 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 14,899 gflops vs 2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
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) 30.857 vs 19.441

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • 4.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 465.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 10% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 5120
  • 3.2x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 465.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 5120
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA TITAN V
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
30.857
19.441
Name NVIDIA TITAN V AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 19884
PassMark - G2D Mark 868
Geekbench - OpenCL 150662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 270.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3583.136
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 30.857 19.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 20.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1504.373
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15401
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4193
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15401
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4193
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 13111

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA TITAN V AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Volta GCN 2.0
Code name GV100 Hawaii
Launch date 7 December 2017 24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $2,999 $1,399
Place in performance rating 149 282
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1455 MHz
Core clock speed 1200 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 14,899 gflops 2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 5120 2x 2816
Texture fill rate 465.6 GTexel / s 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 21,100 million 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 652.8 GB / s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 3072 Bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1700 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5