ATI Radeon HD 4250 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4250

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

2520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4250

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +10002%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4250

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Feb 2009

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

40

-

40

Shading Units

2560

4

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV620 LE

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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