In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalKing 4GB Edition are significantly better than the Nvidia Quadro Plex 7000.

The R9 290 has a 401 MHz higher core clock speed and 32 more Texture Mapping Units than the Quadro Plex 7000. This results in the R9 290 providing 82.5 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R9 290 has a 401 MHz higher core clock speed but 32 fewer Render Output Units than the Quadro Plex 7000. The lower ROP count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the R9 290 manages to provide 7.3 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R9 290 was released over a year more recently than the Quadro Plex 7000, and so the R9 290 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the Quadro Plex 7000.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The Quadro Plex 7000 has 8192 MB more video memory than the R9 290, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The R9 290 has 32 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Quadro Plex 7000, which means that the memory performance of the R9 290 is noticeably better than the Quadro Plex 7000.

The Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalKing 4GB Edition has 2560 Shader Processing Units and the Quadro Plex 7000 has 1024. However, the actual shader performance of the R9 290 is 2122 and the actual shader performance of the Quadro Plex 7000 is 1176. The R9 290 having 946 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R9 290 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the Quadro Plex 7000.

The R9 290 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the Quadro Plex 7000. This means that the R9 290 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the Quadro Plex 7000.

The Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalKing 4GB Edition requires 250 Watts to run and the Quadro Plex 7000 requires 600 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the R9 290 and a PSU with at least 900 Watts for the Quadro Plex 7000. The Quadro Plex 7000 requires 350 Watts more than the R9 290 to run. The difference is significant enough that the Quadro Plex 7000 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R9 290.