Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 64 vs Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX Vega 64
14789
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon RX Vega 64
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Vega
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
November 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1546 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1630 MHz
947 MHz
Floating-point performance
13,353 gflops
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
395.8
151.5
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
945 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
483.8 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
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.2.131