AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1499MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT +36%

7.675 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1243 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1499 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

40

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

95.94 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.35 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.675 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

479.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 10

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTA

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

251 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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