Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2017 Oct 2013
Generation Radeon Pro Mac Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1100 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz
Memory Clock 1695 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 512bit
Bandwidth 217.0GB/s 320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 44
Shading Units 2304 2816
TMUs 144 176
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.40 GPixel/s 64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 172.8 GTexel/s 176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.530 TFLOPS 5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 345.6 GFLOPS 704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Hawaii
GPU Variant Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220) Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 6.2 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 438 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 290W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.170
Shader Model 6.4 6.5