AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 3650

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2440 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +2686%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3650

0.174 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 3650

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

3

2560

Shading Units

120

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.900 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

174.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV635

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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