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Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The Radeon R9 290 has core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290X, which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs 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 R9 290X 10609 points
Radeon R9 290 9876 points
Difference: 733 (7%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X 369 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290 283 Sol/s
Difference: 86 (30%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290 29 Mh/s
Radeon R9 290X 29 Mh/s
Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be a little bit (about 10%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X 140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12800 (10%)

Pixel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same pixel rate, so theoretically they should perform equally good at at FSAA, and be able to handle the same screen resolutions. (explain)

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 R9 290X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2013 October 2013
Code Name Hawaii PRO Hawaii XT
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 320000 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128000 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 51200 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 2816
Texture Mapping Units 160 176
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 512-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 6200 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R9 290X”
megaspeed2 says:

wow... they are practically EXACTLY the same LOLOLOL
...although these stats are wrong, core speed for the 290 is 940mhz and for the 290x is 1000mhz.

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