AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon X550 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon X550 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/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

1.600 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 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

RV410

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.12 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

156 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

-

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

2

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

3

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

4

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

5

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

6

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

7

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

8

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FirePro V7800

9

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro W5100

10

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU