Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire vs PRO W7500

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Aggregate performance score

PRO W7500
2023
8 GB GDDR6, 70 Watt
37.97
+92.3%

PRO W7500 outperforms R9 M290X Crossfire by an impressive 92% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking113264
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation83.88no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameNavi 33Neptune CF
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date3 August 2023 (less than a year ago)1 March 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$429 no data
Current price$409 (1x MSRP)no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17922560
Core clock speedno data850 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors13,300 million2x 2800 Million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate190.4no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
Length216 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2x 4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed10.8 GB/s4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.0 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort 2.1no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (FL 11_1)
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.2no data
Vulkan1.3no data

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD110−120
+89.7%
58
−89.7%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 37.97 19.75
Recency 3 August 2023 1 March 2014
Chip lithography 6 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 200 Watt

The Radeon PRO W7500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon PRO W7500 is a workstation card while Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire is a notebook one.


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