AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jun 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1266 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
36
Shading Units
2560
2304
TMUs
160
144
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
150W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
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