Radeon R9 290X vs A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
A2 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+24%
5632
A2
4531
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Nov 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1440 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
2816
Shading Units
1280
176
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GA107
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
438 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.3
Shader Model
6.6