AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 700 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 700

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +74%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon Sky

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

44

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

580W

550 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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