AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points

2142 points

11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

43 FPS

44 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

33 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

45 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

17 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3987 points

4130 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43067 points

44522 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48969 points

0.04% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points

49182 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz

1266 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320 GB/s

42% much higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

57% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

22% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

22% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

220th of 604

202nd of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 480 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 290X GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon R9 290X at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 290X is faster than the Radeon RX 480.