AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +1032%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

4

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

140W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV670

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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