Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX 5500 XT
9430
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Navi 14 XTX
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2019
November 2013
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
947 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
151.5
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131