AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 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 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +4951%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4550

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

655 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

1

2560

Shading Units

80

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV710

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

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

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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