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AMD Radeon R9 290: specs and benchmarks

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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 Dual-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.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

not rated

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Code name

Hawaii

Type

Desktop

Release date

5 November 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$399

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 1680 (Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary)

Transistor count

6,200 million

of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

151.5 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

of 2918.4 (GRID K340)

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

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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

512 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

of 15500 (GeForce RTX 2080 Super)

Memory bandwidth