Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Apr 2018
Generation Volcanic Islands Mobility Radeon
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1500 MHz
Base Clock 1100 MHz
Boost Clock 1287 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 512bit 64bit
Bandwidth 320.0GB/s 48.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 44 10
Shading Units 2816 640
TMUs 176 40
ROPs 64 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 20.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.0 GTexel/s 51.48 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.632 TFLOPS 1.647 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 704.0 GFLOPS 103.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 1.647 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii Polaris 23
GPU Variant Hawaii XT(215-0852000) Polaris 23 MXT
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 2.2 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 103 mm²
Board Design
TDP 290W 50W
Suggested PSU 600 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) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.2
Shader Model 6.5 6.4