Radeon R9 290X and Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Vega Renoir
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
January 2020
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1500 MHz
Core clock speed
-
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
384
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
-
Memory type
GDDR5
-
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
-
Memory bus width
512 Bit
-
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
-
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12_1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
-
OpenGL
4.6
-
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-