GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX Vega 56
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1471 MHz
TDP
210 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
RX Vega 56
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
3,584
+180.0%
Shaders
1,280
3,584
+180.0%
TMUs
80
224
+180.0%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
20
56
+180.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1471 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
8,192
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
409.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
659.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
21.09 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
100 W
210 W
TDP (W)
100
210
+110.0%
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Neptune
Vega 10
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Vega
(RX Vega)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
12,500 million
Die Size
212 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
13.2M / mm²
25.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
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
—
280 mm
11 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
399 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
Polaris
Successor
Polaris Mobile
Navi