AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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 182.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (190W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +41%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X +28%

3925

Radeon R9 380X

3050

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

32

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

190W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Antigua

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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