AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon X1650 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon X1650 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon X1650 AGP

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV530

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV530 X1650 (215CCCBKB12FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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