AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI FireGL V8650

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1180%

5.632 TFLOPS

FireGL V8650

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2007

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Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

4

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

R600

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

R600 V8650 (215RGIDKA13FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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