AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2020
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
1130 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1560 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
192bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
36
Shading Units
2560
2304
TMUs
160
144
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
1024 KB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
99.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
224.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
7.188 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
449.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
14.38 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 10
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Navi 10 XLE(215-0917338)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
10.3 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
251 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
150W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
7,633
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,561
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
125
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
64
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
47
Blender
—
826
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
92
GTA 5 2160p
—
50
GTA 5 1440p
—
61
GTA 5 1080p
—
170
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.