Radeon RX Vega 2 vs R9 M290X Crossfire

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking288not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.64no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNeptune CFVega Raven Ridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560128
Core clock speed850 MHzno data
Boost clock speed900 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors2x 2800 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt15 Watt

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizelargeno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2x 4 GBno data
Memory bus width2x 256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed4800 MHzno data
Shared memory--

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2014 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 2 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire
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