AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon X1650

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI Radeon X1650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon X1650

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

Unknown

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV516

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.105 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

100 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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