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

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AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP

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

Main Differences

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

AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +185%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360 896SP

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon R7 360 896SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

14

2816

Shading Units

896

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tobago

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Tobago XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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