AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 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 25.60GB/s)

2440 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +2425%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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

3.200 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

45W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV630

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG)

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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