AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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 late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 31.36GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R400 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

490 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

31.36GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

49W

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

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

R420

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

R420 GTO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.16 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

281 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

-

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