Radeon R9 290X2 and Arctic Sound-M - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290X2

Arctic Sound-M

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Generation 12.5 (2021−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Arctic Sound

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2014

2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 5,632 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

10 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

8,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

8192

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

176.0

230.4

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

345.6 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A