Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon R9 290X

Radeon RX 590
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 590
Radeon R9 290X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 290X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 590

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 290X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 590

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 590

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 590Radeon R9 290X
GPU NamePolaris 30 (Polaris 30 XTX)vsHawaii (Hawaii XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2304vs2816
Compute Units36vs44
Core clock1257 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs144vs176

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 590Radeon R9 290X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 590Radeon R9 290X
TDP0 wattsvs290 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs24 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    49.44 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290X
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    222.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290X
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 590
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290X
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 590
    7119.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290X
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better