AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Unknown
Oct 2013
Generation
Mining GPUs
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2100 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
268.8GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
44
Shading Units
2048
2816
TMUs
128
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 20
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
180W
290W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.4
6.5