AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM 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 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Lower TDP (110W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +8%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

44

-

1408

Shading Units

2816

88

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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