AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2020
Oct 2013
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1502 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
32GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
512bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
120
44
Shading Units
7680
2816
TMUs
480
176
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
8 MB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
96.13 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
721.0 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
184.6 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
23.07 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.54 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Arcturus
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Arcturus XL
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
CDNA 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
25.6 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
290W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
N/A
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170
Shader Model
N/A
6.5