AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI FirePro 2270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

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

2736 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +5766%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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FirePro 2270

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

1

2816

Shading Units

80

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cedar

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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