AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +298%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

10

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

80W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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