Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Radeon R9 290X2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Navi 14 XTX

Hawaii

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2019

June 2014

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

4x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1845 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

1000 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 5,632 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

6,400 million

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

2816

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

580 Watt

Texture fill rate

162.4

176.0

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

5400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

345.6 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

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131