Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (500W vs 580W)
Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+1%
5733
Radeon R9 290X2
5632
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jun 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
44
2816
Shading Units
2816
176
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
580W
900 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Hawaii
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.3
