Radeon R9 390X2 vs RX 5600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking143not rated
Place by popularity90not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation54.91no data
Power efficiency16.12no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameNavi 10no data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23042
Core clock speed1130 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1560 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate224.6no data
Floating-point processing power7.188 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs144no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6512
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width192 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)GDDR5
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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