Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX Vega Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

Radeon RX Vega Mobile

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Vega Mobile

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2013

January 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

947 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

90 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

2048 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12_1

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131