Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2016 Nov 2013
Generation Polaris Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1266 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 512bit
Bandwidth 256.0GB/s 320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 40
Shading Units 2304 2560
TMUs 144 160
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 40.51 GPixel/s 60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 182.3 GTexel/s 151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.834 TFLOPS 4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 364.6 GFLOPS 606.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Hawaii
GPU Variant Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184) Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
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 150W 275W
Suggested PSU 450 W 600 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 6.3