AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

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AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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 1024GB)

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

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (80W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +340%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

40

Compute Units

10

-

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

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 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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