AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +3%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480 +6%

4164

Radeon R9 290X

3925

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

44

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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