Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX 5700 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon RX 5700 XT
17129
Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Navi 10
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
July 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1905 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1605 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
10,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
304.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
Multi Monitor
-
+
VR Ready
-
+