AMD Radeon R9 290X: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 290X sales 24 October 2013 at a recommended price of $549. This is GCN architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 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 dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 275 mm. 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 29.20 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
General info
Of Radeon R9 290X's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
1.41
Architecture
GCN
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Market segment
Desktop
Design
reference
Release date
24 October 2013
Launch price (MSRP)
$549
Technical specs
Radeon R9 290X'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 290X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 290X'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).
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
275 mm
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 290X: 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
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 290X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
HDMI
+
DisplayPort support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 290X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
AppAcceleration
+
CrossFire
+
FreeSync
+
HD3D
+
LiquidVR
+
TressFX
+
TrueAudio
+
UVD
+
DDMA audio
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 290X, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX® 12
Shader Model
6.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
Vulkan
+
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 290X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
29.20
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
332042
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
73987
3DMark Fire Strike Score
9835
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
11717
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
16168
3DMark Vantage Performance
37284
Unigine Heaven 3.0
140
Unigine Heaven 4.0
1547
Passmark
7425
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 290X. 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
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)
0.76 kh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
350 Sol/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon R9 290X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 290X performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
100 %
Radeon R9 290XNVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 290X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.