Radeon 610 vs R9 290

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking261not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.13no data
Power efficiency5.26no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameHawaiiBanks
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 November 2013 (11 years ago)23 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560320
Core clock speed947 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1030 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate151.520.60
Floating-point processing power4.849 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs16020

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length275 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s36 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 November 2013 23 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 50 Watt

R9 290 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Radeon 610, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and 450% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290 and Radeon 610. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 290 is a desktop card while Radeon 610 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 290
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