AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II 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 Vega II 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (475W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega II +150%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II

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Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2019

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1574 MHz

Base Clock

-

1720 MHz

Boost Clock

-

806 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

512bit

825.3GB/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

110.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

440.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

28.18 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

7.045 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

475W

TDP

580W

850 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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