AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (205W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5700X +85%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1243 MHz

Base Clock

-

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

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

130.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

326.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

20.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

652.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

205W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

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

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