AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD 2014-06
G

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD 2013-11

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2014
Nov 2013
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
512bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
40
Shading Units
2816
2560
TMUs
176
160
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
580W
275W
Suggested PSU
950 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
6.3

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