AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +1%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

44

-

2816

Shading Units

2816

176

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

290W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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