AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1086MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +44%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

3.892 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

713 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1086 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

28

-

2816

Shading Units

1792

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.75 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

121.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.892 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.892 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

243.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO GL (215-0876144)

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

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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