AMD Radeon R9 290X: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon R9 290X is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 28 nm process and based on the Hawaii graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
Hawaii
Model number
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
6,200 million
Die Size
438 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 24th, 2013
Family
Volcanic Islands
(R9 200)
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
549 USD
Predecessor
Sea Islands
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512 bit
Bandwidth
320.0 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate
176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
704.0 GFLOPS (1:8)

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
GPU Clock
1000 MHz

Render Config

Shading Units
2816
TMUs
176
ROPs
64
Compute Units
44
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
Width
109 mm
4.3 inches
Height
36 mm
1.4 inches
Thermal design power (TDP)
290 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
Display Connectors
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x DisplayPort
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board Number
C671-57

API support

DirectX
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
Radeon R9 290X
AMD Radeon R9 290X: GPU Specs & Benchmarks