AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX 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 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +130%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

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

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

14

-

2560

Shading Units

896

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

65W

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

Polaris 21

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 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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