Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

Radeon R9 290X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

205 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 290X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 290XRadeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameHawaii (Hawaii XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size438 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors6,200 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders2816vs768
Compute Units44vs12
Core clock1000 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs16
TMUs176vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 290XRadeon 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 290XRadeon R9 360 OEM
TDP290 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date24 Oct 2013vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 290X
    64.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 290X
    176.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 290X
    5632.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better