Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1905MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (225W vs 290W)
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+73%
9754
Radeon R9 290X
5632
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Oct 2013
Navi
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
-
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
44
2560
Shading Units
2816
160
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
290W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.3
