Radeon RX 480 and Radeon R9 M290X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon R9 M290X
Radeon RX 480
8883
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
Radeon RX 480
Radeon R9 M290X
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Neptune
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
January 2014
Bus support
n/a
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
900 MHz
Compute units
36
20
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
2.0
-
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
n/a
+
OpenCL
2.0
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
1
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
+
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
+