AMD Radeon Pro SSG vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro SSG and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro SSG 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1500MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (260W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro SSG +118%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro SSG

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

44

4096

Shading Units

2816

256

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

96.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

768.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XT GL (215-0894124)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

260W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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