UHD Graphics 750 vs Radeon R9 290X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated662
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.55
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameHawaiiRocket Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 June 2014 (10 years ago)30 March 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2816256
Core clock speed1000 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate176.020.80
Floating-point processing power5.632 TFLOPS0.6656 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs17616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Width3-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width512 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1350 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 June 2014 30 March 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics 750 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 3766.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290X2 and UHD Graphics 750. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 290X2
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