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 Vega Frontier Edition
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1600 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
Vega Frontier Edition
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
4,096
+220.0%
Shaders
1,280
4,096
+220.0%
TMUs
80
256
+220.0%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
20
64
+220.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
945 MHz
1890 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
16,384
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
483.8 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
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
819.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
26.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
100 W
300 W
TDP (W)
100
300
+200.0%
Suggested PSU
—
700 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)
Radeon Pro Vega
(Vega Series)
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
—
267 mm
10.5 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
—
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
Radeon Pro Polaris
Successor
Polaris Mobile
Radeon Pro Navi