AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 580W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

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

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

50W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV560

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

230 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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