AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon VII

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +138%

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

Radeon VII +137%

9319

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

60

-

2816

Shading Units

3840

176

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

295W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Vega 20

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

331 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

6.7

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