AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +146%

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon R9 290 +149%

3684

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

40

-

896

Shading Units

2560

56

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Hawaii

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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