AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4650 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (48W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +1366%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4650 AGP

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Sep 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

4

-

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

48W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV730

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV730 PRO (215-0719056)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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