AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +27%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jun 2014

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

44

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

251 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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