AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Aug 2017
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
—
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
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1471 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
512bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
409.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
56
Shading Units
2816
3584
TMUs
176
224
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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21.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
210W
Suggested PSU
950 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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6,783
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,310
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.