
Radeon RX Vega 5 and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 5
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Vega
Hawaii
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
November 2013
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
947 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
151.5
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB
Memory bus width
-
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.3
Vulkan
-
1.2.131