AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

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

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +115%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

44

-

1024

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

580W

250 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 Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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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