
Radeon R9 290X and Playstation 5 GPU - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Playstation 5 GPU
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Oberon Plus
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
September 2022
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
2233 MHz
Core clock speed
-
2233 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
10,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
321.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
N/A
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
N/A
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-