GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

CORE STATE Neptune

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 900 MHz

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 560

CORE STATE Polaris 21

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1275 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

28,243

23,597

geekbench_opencl

24,008

16,234

passmark_directx_10

N/A

16

passmark_directx_11

N/A

25

passmark_directx_12

N/A

21

passmark_directx_9

N/A

57

passmark_g2d

N/A

485

passmark_g3d

N/A

3,671

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

1,437

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 M290X

RX 560

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,024 -20.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,024 -20.0%

TMUs

80

64 -20.0%

ROPs

32

16 -50.0%

Compute Units

20

16 -20.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1275 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

20.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

100 W

75 W

TDP (W)

100

75 -25.0%

Suggested PSU

—

250 W

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GCN 4.0

GPU Name

Neptune

Polaris 21

Generation

Gem System (R9 M200)

Polaris (RX 500)

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

3,000 million

Die Size

212 mm²

123 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

GlobalFoundries

Density

13.2M / mm²

24.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.7

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

170 mm 6.7 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

—

99 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

Arctic Islands

Successor

Polaris Mobile

Vega

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