Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Polaris 11

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2013

January 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1275 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

1172 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

2,611 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

60-80 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

81.60

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

92.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync