AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon R7 360E

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360E to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 360E 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +200%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360E

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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Radeon R7 360E

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Dec 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

12

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tobago

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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