AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro RG220A

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD FirePro RG220A

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +5961%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

1

-

2560

Shading Units

80

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

M93

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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