AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +497%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4730

0.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon HD 4730

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

8

2816

Shading Units

640

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

960.0 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

192.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

RV770

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

RV770 CE (215-0669093)

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

500W

TDP

110W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 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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