AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 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 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 290

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Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

R580+

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.384 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

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6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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