AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 16GB VRAM Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU 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 25.60GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock2700MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU +47%

8.294 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Console GPU(ASUS)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2700 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

12

-

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

12

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

86.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

129.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.294 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

518.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

30W

950 W

Suggested PSU

-

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

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Phoenix

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

25.39 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

178 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.8

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