AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2018
Jun 2014
Generation
Polaris
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1090 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1175 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1350 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
345.6GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
44
Shading Units
896
2816
TMUs
56
176
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
18.80 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
65.80 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.106 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
2.106 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
131.6 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 21
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XL
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
123 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
65W
580W
Suggested PSU
250 W
950 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.3