AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 +41%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 +116%

8497

Radeon R9 290X

3925

Radeon RX 5700

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

44

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

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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