AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

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AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT 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 216.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock2300MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT +67%

9.421 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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Radeon RX 7500 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1452 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2300 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

96bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

16

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.60 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

147.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.84 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.421 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

294.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 33

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Navi 33

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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