AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 896SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 360 896SP

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +185%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360 896SP

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

44

896

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tobago

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tobago XT

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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