AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 4570
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4570 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 late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
2480 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 4570 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
+4562%
4.849 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4570
0.104 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Nov 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
1
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
80
160
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
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 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
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
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-
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6.3
Shader Model
4.1
