Radeon R9 290X and Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Limited Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Limited Edition
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Vega 10
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
August 2017
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
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1677 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1406 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
13,738 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
429.3
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
2048 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1890 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
483.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-