Radeon R9 290 and Radeon R7 260X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon R7 260X
3282
Radeon R9 290
Radeon R7 260X
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
896
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
61.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
104 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-