AMD Radeon RX Vega Nano vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega Nano

AMD Radeon R9 290X

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

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega Nano +124%

12.66 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega Nano

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

Vega

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

-

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

409.6GB/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

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

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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