AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock3000MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT +1045%

64.51 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

3000 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

84

-

2816

Shading Units

5376

176

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

576.0 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1008 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

129.0 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.51 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.016 TFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

300W

950 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 31

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT+

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

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

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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