Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX 570X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 570X
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon RX 570X
1981
Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX 570X
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
April 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1244 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1168 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
5,095 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
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
159.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x 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