AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (185W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +9%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

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Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

44

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 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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