AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 128MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X800 GTO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 290W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon X800 GTO

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R400 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

350 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

R423

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

R423 GTO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.16 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

289 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

49W

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

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

-

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