AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (225W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +73%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jun 2014

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

44

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

580W

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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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