AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

Lower TDP (45W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +167%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

44

896

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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