Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R9 380
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 380 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (190W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
+39%
4849
Radeon R9 380
3476
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
+33%
3694
Radeon R9 380
2757
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Jun 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
28
2560
Shading Units
1792
160
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.04 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.6 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
3.476 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.476 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
190W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Antigua
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
Antigua PRO
(215-0877000)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
5 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.3
