AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM 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 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM +20%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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