AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II Duo to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (475W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II Duo +150%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

64

-

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

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

110.1 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

475W

950 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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