ATI Radeon X1700 FSC vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Lower TDP (44W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 FSC

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

695 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

22.24GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

-

Shading Units

2560

4

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.348 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

2.348 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

44W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV535

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV535 FSC

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

R500

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

131 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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