AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI FireMV 2260

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI FireMV 2260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2776 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +13980%

5.632 TFLOPS

FireMV 2260

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

FireMV 2260

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

2

-

2816

Shading Units

40

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

15W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV620

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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