AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5300 XT 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 112.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Lower TDP (100W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5300 XT +7%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon RX 5300 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1670 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

22

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 14

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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