NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
            NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
            
                $649
            
        
    
            AMD Radeon R9 290X
            
                $549
            
        
    | 2816 Shaders 6GB GDDR5 1075MHz | 2816 Shaders 4GB GDDR5 1000MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 24.22 TOPS INT8 | Peak AI Performance 5.63 TFLOPS FP32 | 
| FP32 6.05 TFLOPS | FP32 5.63 TFLOPS | 
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| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | 
| TDP 250W | TDP 250W | 
| Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin 1x 8-Pin - - | Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin 1x 8-Pin - - | 
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
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                                            190 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            24.22 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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| Pixel
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                                            103.2 GPixel/s
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                                            64 GPixel/s
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| Texture
                                            Fillrate 
                                            189.2 GTexel/s
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                                            176 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerNVIDIA | ManufacturerAMD | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerAMD | 
| ArchitectureMaxwell 2 | ArchitectureGCN 2 | 
| FamilyGeForce 900 | FamilyRadeon R 200 | 
| Codename NV120 GM200 Variant GM200-310 | Codename Hawaii - Variant Hawaii XT | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 6/1/2015 | Release Date 10/24/2013 | 
| Foundry TSMC - | Foundry TSMC - | 
| Fabrication Node 28nm - | Fabrication Node 28nm - | 
| Die Size 601 mm² - | Die Size 438 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 8 Billion - | Transistor Count 6.2 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 13.31M/mm² - | Transistor Density 14.16M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 2816 Shaders - | Shading Units 2816 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 176 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 176 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 96 ROPs | Render Output Units 64 ROPs | 
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| Streaming Multiprocessors 22 SMs | - - | 
| - - | Compute Units 44 CUs | 
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| - - 1000MHz Base 1075MHz | - - - 1000MHz | 
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| L1 - 48KB/SM - - | L1 - - 16KB/CU - | 
| L2 3MB Shared | L2 1MB Shared | 
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| 6GB GDDR5 - | 4GB GDDR5 - | 
| Bus Width 384Bit | Bus Width 512Bit | 
| Clock 1750MHz Transfer Rate 7GT/s Bandwidth 336GB/s | Clock 1250MHz Transfer Rate 5GT/s Bandwidth 320GB/s | 
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| TDP 250W | TDP 250W | 
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| - - - - - - - - 1x DVI-I Dual-Link - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.2 - - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.0 - - - | - - - - - - - - - - 2x DVI-D Dual-Link - - - - - - - - - - - 1x DisplayPort 1.2 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 1.4 - - - - | 
| Max Resolution 4096x2304 | Max Resolution 4096x2160 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 3 | Multi Monitor Support 3 | 
| - - | Content Protection HDCP 1.4 | 
| Model 2x NVENC 3 | Model VCE 2.0 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) - - - - - | 
| Model NVDEC 1 | Model UVD 4.2 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 - - - AVC (H.264) - - - - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 - - - AVC (H.264) - - - - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_1 | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_0 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.3 | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.2 | 
| Shader Model 6.7 CUDA 5.2 - - PureVideo HD VP6 VDPAU Feature Set E | Shader Model 6.5 - - GFX 7 - - - - | 
| - - - 1x Fan | - - - 1x Fan | 
| Power Connectors - - 1x 6-Pin 1x 8-Pin - - - | Power Connectors - - 1x 6-Pin 1x 8-Pin - - - | 
| Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 3.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 3.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | 
| Multi GPU Support Supported Type 4-way SLI | Multi GPU Support Supported Type CrossFire XDMA | 
| Height 111 mm (4.37 in) Width 267 mm (10.51 in) Depth 40 mm (1.57 in) | Height 110 mm (4.33 in) Width 275 mm (10.83 in) Depth 36 mm (1.42 in) | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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