Radeon R9 290X and Radeon R7 450 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon R7 450 OEM
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Cape Verde
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
June 2016
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
-
Core clock speed
-
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
947.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
512
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
29.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
4.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
+
1.2.170
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-