AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon X1650 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI Radeon X1650 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 128MB VRAM Radeon X1650 GT 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 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon X1650 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2007

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

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 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

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV560

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV560 GT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.312 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

230 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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