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Radeon R9 290X and Radeon Pro 580X - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon Pro 580X

Radeon R9 290X
7648
Radeon Pro 580X
7766

Radeon R9 290X

Radeon Pro 580X


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Polaris 20

Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation

Release date
October 2013
March 2019

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None

Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1200 MHz

Core clock speed
-
1100 MHz

Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2304

Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
150 Watt

Texture fill rate
176.0
172.8

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB

Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6780 MHz

Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
217.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs

Eyefinity
+
-

HDMI
+
-

DisplayPort support
+
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_0)

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
2.0
2.0

OpenGL
4.6
4.6

Shader Model
6.3
6.4

Vulkan
+
1.2.131

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-