AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Mar 2019
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1710 MHz
Base Clock
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1100 MHz
Boost Clock
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1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
218.9GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
36
Shading Units
2816
2304
TMUs
176
144
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
38.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
172.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
5.530 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
345.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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5.530 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
185W
Suggested PSU
950 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x HDMI 2.0b
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Benchmark
Blender
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.