AMD Radeon R9 290X: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 290X sales 24 October 2013 at a recommended price of $549. 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 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. 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 42.90 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.
General info
Technical specs
Memory specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of Radeon R9 290X's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Code name
Hawaii
Type
Desktop
Design
reference
Release date
24 October 2013
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.
Transistor count
6,200 million
of 21100
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 specs
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
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
of 32
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 290X.
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
+
Eyefinity
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 290X, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX® 12
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
+
Video card benchmarks 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
42.42
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
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
12520
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 (in FPS)
Let's see how good Radeon R9 290X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.
Overall gaming performance
0.31
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017)
high / 1080p
60
ultra / 1080p
31
4k / 2160p
24
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) (2017)
ultra / 1080p
44
Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)
high / 1080p
40
ultra / 1080p
96
Civilization VI (2016)
ultra / 1080p
55
4k / 2160p
51
Deus Ex Mankind Divided (2016)
high / 1080p
61
ultra / 1080p
33
Dishonored 2 (2016)
ultra / 1080p
48
4k / 2160p
24
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (2016)
high / 1080p
81
ultra / 1080p
66
4k / 2160p
29
Overwatch (2016)
high / 1080p
198
ultra / 1080p
97
4k / 2160p
65
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
low / 768p
149
medium / 768p
102
high / 1080p
65
ultra / 1080p
51
4k / 2160p
27
The Division (2016)
ultra / 1080p
51
4k / 2160p
30
Titanfall 2 (2016)
ultra / 1080p
103
4k / 2160p
61
Fallout 4 (2015)
low / 720p
159
medium / 768p
135
high / 1080p
84
ultra / 1080p
64
4k / 2160p
32
GTA V (2015)
low / 768p
155
medium / 768p
149
high / 1080p
93
ultra / 1080p
41
4k / 2160p
52
The Witcher 3 (2015)
low / 768p
179
medium / 768p
123
high / 1080p
75
ultra / 1080p
29
4k / 2160p
28
Far Cry 4 (2014)
low / 768p
122
medium / 768p
115
high / 1080p
94
ultra / 1080p
80
Sims 4 (2014)
ultra / 1080p
93
Battlefield 4 (2013)
ultra / 1080p
78
4k / 2160p
47
Dota 2 (2013)
ultra / 1080p
109
Tomb Raider (2013)
high / 768p
266
ultra / 1080p
137
Counter-Strike: GO (2012)
ultra / 1080p
280
Diablo III (2012)
ultra / 1080p
260
Dishonored (2012)
ultra / 1080p
129
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 290X performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 290X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX TITAN, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.
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