Radeon R9 290X and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
April 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
-
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
6
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
176.0
6.900
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
+
1.1.80
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-