AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2440 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +3267%

4.849 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

3

-

2560

Shading Units

120

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

73W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV630

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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