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