AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 275W)
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700
+63%
7.949 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700
+126%
8374
Radeon R9 290
3694
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Nov 2013
Navi
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1465 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
40
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
2560
144
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
248.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
15.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.949 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
496.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
275W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 10 XL
(215-0917220)
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.3
