Radeon R9 290X2 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X2
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2014
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
580 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5400 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
345.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+