AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 XT Dual to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 22.08GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon X1600 XT Dual

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.08GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.360 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.360 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV530

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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