AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 X2 +1233%

5.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Dec 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

4

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

200W

950 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

R600

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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