Radeon R9 290X2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 290X2 sales 24 June 2014 at a recommended price of $1,399 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.35 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 345.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a triple-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 4 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 580 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 290X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Hawaii | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 24 June 2014 (10 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,399 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon R9 290X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 290X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2816 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 6,200 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 580 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 176.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 5.632 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 176 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 290X2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Width | 3-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 4x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 290X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1350 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 345.6 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 290X2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon R9 290X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 290X2 is GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK.
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