AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +18%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

44

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Vesuvius

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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