Radeon R9 290 and HD Graphics 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs HD Graphics 520
Radeon R9 290
8336
HD Graphics 520
856
Radeon R9 290
HD Graphics 520
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Skylake GT2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
September 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
24
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
25.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
Quick Sync
-
+