AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock3000MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7950 XT +1045%

64.51 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2014

Navi III

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

-

3000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

512bit

800.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

84

Compute Units

44

-

5376

Shading Units

2816

336

TMUs

176

192

ROPs

64

-

84

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

80 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

576.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

1008 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

129.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

64.51 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

580W

700 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 31 XT+

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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