Radeon R9 290X and R580 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
R580
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ultra-Threaded SE
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
R580
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
947 MHz
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Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
384 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
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Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
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Texture fill rate
176.0
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
512 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
9.0c (9_3)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1 (full)
Shader Model6.33.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
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DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
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