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Radeon R9 290X and Radeon R9 380X - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon R9 380X

Radeon R9 290X
7648
Radeon R9 380X
6380

Radeon R9 290X

Radeon R9 380X


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Antigua

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
October 2013
November 2015

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
​2 x 6-pin

Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1

Boost clock speed
947 MHz
970 MHz

Compute units
-
32

Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
3,973 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2048

Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
190 Watt

Texture fill rate
176.0
124.2

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
970 MHz

Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
182.4 GB/s

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-
-

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity
+
1

Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
+
+

DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12

Mantle
-
+

OpenCL
2.0
2.0

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
6.3
6.3

Vulkan
+
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
1

DDMA audio
+
+

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
1

FRTC
-
1

HD3D
+
+

LiquidVR
1
1

PowerTune
-
+

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
+

UVD
+
-

VCE
-
+

ZeroCore
-
+