AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1215%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

53.12GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

4

-

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV670

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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