AMD Radeon R9 290 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 16MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 AGP 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 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 2.288GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 290

VS

Voodoo4 2 4200 AGP

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Voodoo4-2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

143 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

2.288GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

2

64

ROPs

2

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

286.0 MPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

286.0 MTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

VSA-101

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Daytona (355-0025-221)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Voodoo Scalable

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.014 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

112 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

6.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

-

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