Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX 560D - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX 560D
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Polaris 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
July 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1175 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1090 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
2,106 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
896
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
65.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
96 GB/s
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