Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 224.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock1284MHz
Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+7%
5632
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
5259
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Oct 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1168 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1284 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
32
2816
Shading Units
2048
176
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
41.09 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
164.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.259 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.259 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
328.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
