Intel Arc Pro B50 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2025
Jun 2014
Generation
Battlemage
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2600 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
345.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2816
TMUs
128
176
ROPs
16
64
RT Cores
16
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
44
L1 Cache
-
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
41.60 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
332.8 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.30 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
10.65 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.662 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
BMG-G21
Hawaii
Architecture
Xe2
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
19.6 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
272 mm²
438 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Board Design
TDP
70W
580W
Suggested PSU
250 W
950 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
4x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.3