Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce RTX 5090 D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (290W vs 575W)
GeForce RTX 5090 D 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2407MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
18944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5632
GeForce RTX 5090 D
+1760%
104800
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jan 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2017 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
170
2816
Shading Units
21760
176
TMUs
680
64
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
680
-
RT Cores
170
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
575W
600 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GB202
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
10.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.8
