Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2014 Nov 2021
Generation Volcanic Islands Radeon Instinct
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1350 MHz 1600 MHz
Base Clock 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1700 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 128GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2e
Memory Bus 512bit 8192bit
Bandwidth 345.6GB/s 3277GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 44 208
Shading Units 2816 13312
TMUs 176 832
ROPs 64 0
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.0 GTexel/s 1414 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.632 TFLOPS 45.26 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 704.0 GFLOPS 45.26 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 362.1 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii Aldebaran
GPU Variant Hawaii XT(215-0852000) Aldebaran
Architecture GCN 2.0 CDNA 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 58.2 billion
Die Size 438 mm² Unknown
Board Design
TDP 580W 500W
Suggested PSU 950 W 900 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 4x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) N/A
OpenGL 4.6 N/A
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.3 N/A