Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and 3D Rage - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

3D Rage

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Mach (1992−1997)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

Mach64 GT

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2014

April 1996

Interface

-

PCI

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

-

Core clock speed

850 MHz

44 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

500 nm

Number of transistors

2x 2800 Million

5 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

-

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

-

0.04

Memory type

GDDR5

EDO

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

2 MB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

57 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

456.0 MB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

1x VGA

DirectX

12 (FL 11_1)

5.0

OpenCL

-

N/A

OpenGL

-

N/A

Vulkan

-

N/A