Radeon R9 290X and Radeon X1650 GT - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon X1650 GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
RV560
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
May 2007
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
None
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
330 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
176.0
3.200
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
9.0c (9_3)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.3
3.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-