AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI355X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2013
Jun 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2400 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
288GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM3e
Memory Bus
512bit
8192bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
8.19TB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
40
256
Shading Units
2560
16384
TMUs
160
1024
ROPs
64
0
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
32 MB
Tensor Cores
-
1216
L3 Cache
-
256 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
2457.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
78.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
39.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
78.64 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
MI350 256CU
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
CDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
3 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
185 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
Unknown

Board Design

TDP
275W
1400W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1800 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

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

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