AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (175W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +46%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

Radeon RX 590 +29%

4757

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 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

40

Compute Units

36

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

175W

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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

232 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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