AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +253%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

10

-

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Lexa

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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