Comparison of GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK and Radeon R9 290

Attribute	Radeon R9 290 ×	GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2013	2014
GPU brand	AMD	Nvidia
GPU name	Hawaii	GK110B
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	947	889
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	947	980
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon R9 290	GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory
Memory (MB)	4,096	6,144
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	320	-
Memory bus (bit)	512	384
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,125	1,750
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	5,000	7,000
Noise and power
TDP (W)	300	250
Load power consumption (W)	381	-
Idle power consumption (W)	87	-
Load noise level (dB)	57.2	-
Idle noise level (dB)	39.5	-
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	60.6	53.3
Render output processors	64	48
Texture mapping units	160	240
Shading units	2,560	2,880
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	4,800	5,121
Compute units	40	-
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	152	213.4
Benchmarks
Crysis 3	51	-
Cloud Gate Factor	-	24.37
Face detection (mPixels/s)	108.61	82.61
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3355.58	3355.5
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3713.44	3714.56
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	545.44	293.83
Sky Diver Factor	410.95	452.58
Fire Strike Factor	71.97	77.05
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	2474.12	1831.92