Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2013 Jul 2017
Generation Volcanic Islands Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1500 MHz
Base Clock 1090 MHz
Boost Clock 1175 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 512bit 128bit
Bandwidth 320.0GB/s 96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 40 14
Shading Units 2560 896
TMUs 160 56
ROPs 64 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 60.61 GPixel/s 18.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 151.5 GTexel/s 65.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.849 TFLOPS 2.106 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 606.1 GFLOPS 131.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 2.106 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii Polaris 21
GPU Variant Hawaii PRO(215-0852020) Polaris 21 XL
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 3 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 123 mm²
Board Design
TDP 275W 65W
Suggested PSU 600 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.3 6.4