AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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 Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1677MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 345W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling +143%

13.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Vega

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1406 MHz

Base Clock

-

1677 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

44

-

4096

Shading Units

2816

256

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

429.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

27.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

858.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

345W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XTX

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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