AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI350X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 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
-
2200 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
44
256
Shading Units
2816
16384
TMUs
176
1024
ROPs
64
0
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
16 MB
Tensor Cores
-
1024
L3 Cache
-
256 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
2252.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
72.09 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
36.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
72.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
MI350 256CU
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
-
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
290W
1000W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1400 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
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
N/A
Shader Model
6.5
N/A