Radeon R9 290 and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Van Gogh
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
February 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1600 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
512
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
51.20
Memory type
GDDR5
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
88 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x USB Type-C
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
1.2