Radeon R9 290 and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce FX 5500

Radeon R9 290

8336

GeForce FX 5500

Radeon R9 290

GeForce FX 5500

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Hawaii

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

March 2004

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Core clock speed

947 MHz

270 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

1.080

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

332 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0a

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A