AMD Radeon R9 290: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 290 sales 5 November 2013 at a recommended price of $399. This is GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 275 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 40.90 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 290's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Code name

Hawaii

Type

Desktop

Release date

5 November 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$399

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 290's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 290's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2560

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

947 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

6,200 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

151.5

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 290's 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).

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

275 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 290: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

512 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 290.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 290, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0

OpenGL

4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 290. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

41.22

Unigine Heaven 4.0

1440

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

11860

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 290. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

545 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

30 Mh/s

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

285 Sol/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 290 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

109 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

105.01 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

104.13 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 290

95.77 %

AMD Radeon RX 570

95.75 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

89.56 %

AMD Radeon HD 7990

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 290 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 780 Ti, which is faster by 4% and higher by 4 positions in our rating.