AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +132%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

64

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Vega 10

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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