Radeon R9 290 vs Vega 9 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated262
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data8.02
Power efficiencyno data5.24
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code namePicassoHawaii
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)5 November 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

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 cores5762560
Core clock speed300 MHz947 MHz
Boost clock speed1300 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,940 million6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate46.80151.5
Floating-point processing power1.498 TFLOPS4.849 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs36160

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data275 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared512 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data320.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 5 November 2013
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 275 Watt

Vega 9 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1733.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 9 Mobile and Radeon R9 290. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 9 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R9 290 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 9 Mobile
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