Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 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 475W)
Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1720MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5632
Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
+150%
14090
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jun 2019
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon Pro Mac
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
Apple MPX
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1400 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1720 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
512bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
64
2816
Shading Units
4096
176
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.1 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
440.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
28.18 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.09 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
7.045 TFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
475W
600 W
Suggested PSU
850 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
4x Thunderbolt
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Vega 20
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.7
