AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 3610

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3610 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

2696 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3610 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +3838%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3610

0.143 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 3610

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

3

2816

Shading Units

120

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.752 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.6 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV630

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

35W

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

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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