Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Jun 2016
Generation Volcanic Islands Arctic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1266 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 512bit 256bit
Bandwidth 320.0GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 44 36
Shading Units 2816 2304
TMUs 176 144
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.0 GTexel/s 182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.632 TFLOPS 5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 704.0 GFLOPS 364.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii Ellesmere
GPU Variant Hawaii XT(215-0852000) Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 290W 150W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.3
Shader Model 6.5 6.7