AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 290X and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 76% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 2x 800
2.8x better floating-point performance: 5,632 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
7.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8644 vs 1132
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 770 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 October 2013 vs 7 November 2008
Pipelines	2816 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	5,632 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8644 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	770 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 176.0 GTexel / s
Around 59% higher memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 176.0 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8644

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

770

542

Name	AMD Radeon R9 290X	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8644	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	770	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	42508
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	114.883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2460.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	11.12
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	120.942
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	628.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3952

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 290X	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	Hawaii	R700
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	24 October 2013	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	$420
Place in performance rating	287	244
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	947 MHz
Floating-point performance	5,632 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2816	2x 800
Stream Processors	2560
Texture fill rate	176.0 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	956 million
Core clock speed		625 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	275 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)