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AMD Radeon R9 290X technical specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 290X sales 24 October 2013 at a recommended price of 549 USD. This is a GCN architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4096 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320 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. An additional 1 power connector 6-pin and 1 power connector 8-pin are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 42.99 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN Xp.

General info Benchmarks Mining Gaming

General info

Info on video card type (desktop or notebook), its architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN

Code name

Hawaii XT

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

24 October 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

549 USD

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Quantitative parameters such as shaders number, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly say of video card performance, but to be more precise you have to review it's benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2816

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Boost Clock

947 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

6200 Million

of 21100 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

176.0

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

5,632 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on video card 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 the slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

275 mm

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Required power supply connectors

1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on the video card - type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. 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 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

512 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Video connectors present on the video card. Mostly actual for desktop video cards since notebook ones' available video connectors vastly depend on the notebook model.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

DisplayPort support

Technologies

Technological solutions supported by the GPU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

FreeSync

HD3D

LiquidVR

TressFX

TrueAudio

UVD

DDMA audio

Eyefinity

API support

APIs supported by video card, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

Vulkan

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

42.99

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

332042.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

73987.00

3DMark Fire Strike Score

9835.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

11717.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

16167.50

3DMark Vantage Performance

37284.00

Unigine Heaven 3.0

140.00

Unigine Heaven 4.0

1547

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

12520

Mining hashrate

Video card cryptocurrency mining capabilities. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

623 Mh/s

Decred / DCR (Decred)

1.07 Gh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

25.75 Mh/s

LBRY Credits / LBC (Lbry)

0.07 Gh/s

Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)

0.76 kh/s

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

350 Sol/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

How good for gaming a particular GPU is. Gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade of the video card.

Overall gaming performance

41.85

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Dishonored 2 (2016)

ultra / 1080p

47.80

4k / 2160p

23.60

Titanfall 2 (2016)

ultra / 1080p

103.00

4k / 2160p