Radeon R9 290 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Raven
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
April 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1101 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
4,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
512
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
35.23
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
512 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131