Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Oct 1999
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
4
64
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
290W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
NV10
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
-