Radeon R9 290 and Radeon 540X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon 540X
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon 540X
1472
Radeon R9 290
Radeon 540X
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
August 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
512
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
33.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131