AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Lower TDP (130W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +8%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Dec 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

22

-

2816

Shading Units

1408

176

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

130W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 14

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

158 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

6.5

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