AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100

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AMD Radeon R9 290 AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 3100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +288%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 3100

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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Radeon Pro WX 3100

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Lexa

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Lexa XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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