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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 is a Desktop video accelerator from AMD. It began to be released in June 2014. It also has a memory frequency of 1350MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

Top Desktop GPU: 213

Basic

Label Name
AMD
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
June 2014
Model Name
Radeon R9 290X2
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
2816
Transistors
6,200 million
Compute Units
44
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
176
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024KB
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TDP
580W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
512bit
Memory Clock
1350MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
345.6 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
176.0 GTexel/s
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
704.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
5.409 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.2
OpenCL Version
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (12_0)
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
64
Shader Model
6.3
Suggested PSU
950W

FP32 (float)

5.409 TFlops

Compared to Other GPU

0%
11%
55%
Better then 0% GPU over the past year
Better then 11% GPU over the past 3 years
Better then 55% GPU

SiliconCat Rating

213
Ranks 213 among Desktop GPU on our website
440
Ranks 440 among all GPU on our website
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro 580
AMD, June 2017
5.64 TFlops
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
AMD, April 2017
5.501 TFlops
Radeon R9 290X2
AMD, June 2014
5.409 TFlops
Radeon R9 390
AMD, June 2015
5.221 TFlops
Quadro K6000 SDI
NVIDIA, July 2013
5.092 TFlops