AMD Radeon R9 290

This is a GPU manufactured with TSMC 28nm process, based on AMD GCN 2.0 architecture and released on Nov 2013. It features 6.2 billion transistors, 40 Rendering cores and 4GB GDDR5 memory, with 1024KB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 4.849TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 275W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Nov 2013

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

4GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

512bit

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units

40

Shading Units

2560

TMUs

160

ROPs

64

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

Hawaii

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO

(215-0852020)

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

6.2 billion

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

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TDP

275W

Suggested PSU

600 W

Outputs

2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.0

Vulkan

1.2

Shader Model

6.3

Rankings

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FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 4 GB GDDR6

4.915 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 4 GB GDDR6

4.915 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile 6 GB GDDR6

4.884 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon R9 290 4 GB GDDR5

4.849 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GRID M60 1Q 1024 MB GDDR5

4.825 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GRID M60 2Q 2 GB GDDR5

4.825 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GRID M60 4A 4 GB GDDR5

4.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

3859

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 3 GB GDDR5

3849

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 4 GB GDDR5

3759

AMD Radeon R9 290 4 GB GDDR5

3684

AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB GDDR5

3678

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB GDDR5

3669

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile 4 GB GDDR6

3659

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