AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +16%

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

Radeon RX 590 GME +12%

4432

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 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

44

Compute Units

36

-

2816

Shading Units

2304

176

TMUs

144

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

45.44 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

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 20

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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