AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Navi 14 Hawaii
GPU variant Navi 14 PRO XL Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)
Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 7 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 6,400 million 6,200 million
Die size 158 mm² 438 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 4th, 2020 Nov 5th, 2013
Generation Radeon Pro Mac Volcanic Islands
Production Active End-of-life
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Launch price 399 USD
Reviews 69 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands

Clocks

Base clock 1187 MHz
Boost clock 1757 MHz
Memory clock 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective
GPU clock 947 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 512 bit
Bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 320.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1536 2560
TMUs 96 160
ROPs 32 64
Compute units 24 40
Cache L2 2 MB 1024 KB
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)

Performance

Pixel rate 56.22 GPixel/s 60.61 GPixel/s
Texture rate 168.7 GTexel/s 151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance 5.398 TFLOPS 4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 337.3 GFLOPS (1:16) 606.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width IGP Dual-slot
TDP 125 W 275 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 600 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches
Board number C671-57

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.5 6.3

Other Features

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