AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon Pro V420

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 32GB VRAM AMD Radeon Pro V420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro V420 's Advantages

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (819.2GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon Pro V420 +187%

13.93 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V420

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

819.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

64

2560

Shading Units

4096

160

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.8 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

435.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.85 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.93 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.963 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Vega 20

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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