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Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

The Radeon R9 290 comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56 21011 points
Radeon R9 290 9876 points
Difference: 11135 (113%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56 210 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 90 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R9 290 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 419430 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
Difference: 99430 (31%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (more or less 102%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 130944 (102%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (about 45%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 290, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 22784 (45%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 290 Radeon RX Vega 56
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2013 September 2017
Code Name Hawaii PRO Vega 10 XL
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 1156 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 210 watts
Bandwidth 320000 MB/sec 419430 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128000 Mtexels/sec 258944 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 51200 Mpixels/sec 73984 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 3584
Texture Mapping Units 160 224
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 HBM2
Bus Width 512-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6200 million 12500 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX Vega 56”
Seffo says:

Hi, Y'all, (I'm a indy filmmaker). Happy holidays, I'm trying to work out an eGPU for my Mac Mini, with the: MSI Video Card Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC. + Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 650W. Does anybody know if that can work out? I'm really getting crazy what works and what doesn't 🙁 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078DZR5YK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-eGFX-Breakaway-550W-GPU-550W-TB3/dp/B0764J5QVD/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1544378497&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=sonnet+egfx+650w

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