Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

Radeon RX 570 X2

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 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

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

180 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

8.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

268.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.0b

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3