Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

Radeon R9 290
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 290
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 360 OEM

190 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 290

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 290Radeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameHawaii (Hawaii PRO)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size438 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors6,200 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders2560vs768
Compute Units40vs12
Core clock947 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs16
TMUs160vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 290Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width512 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 290Radeon R9 360 OEM
TDP275 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date5 Nov 2013vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 290
    60.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 290
    152.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 290
    320.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 290
    4849.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better