AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Steam Deck GPU

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2014
Feb 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Game console
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1375 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1600 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
88.00GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
8
Shading Units
2816
512
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB
RT Cores
-
8
L3 Cache
-
8 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
51.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
1.638 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
102.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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3.277 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
Van Gogh
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
100-000000405
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
2.4 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
163 mm²

Board Design

TDP
580W
15W
Suggested PSU
950 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.8