AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Hawaii Vesuvius
GPU variant Hawaii XT (215-0852000) Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 6,200 million 6,200 million
Die size 438 mm² 438 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 24th, 2013 Apr 29th, 2014
Generation Volcanic Islands Volcanic Islands
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 549 USD 1,499 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 147 in our database 33 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands Pirate Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 1000 MHz 1018 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 512 bit 512 bit
Bandwidth 320.0 GB/s 320.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2816 2816
TMUs 176 176
ROPs 64 64
Compute units 44 44
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 1024 KB 1024 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 64.00 GPixel/s 65.15 GPixel/s
Texture rate 176.0 GTexel/s 179.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 5.632 TFLOPS 5.733 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 704.0 GFLOPS (1:8) 716.7 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches 307 mm 12.1 inches
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches 114 mm 4.5 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches 42 mm 1.7 inches
TDP 290 W 500 W
Suggested PSU 600 W 900 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 3x 8-pin
Board number C671-57 C673-A7

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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