AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +300%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

40

-

512

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Hawaii

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

103 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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