AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 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 late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +463%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon HD 4850

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

993 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

10

2816

Shading Units

800

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV770

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

110W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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