AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +85%

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1788

Radeon R9 290 +105%

3681

Radeon RX 560

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

40

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

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

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

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

75W

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 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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