AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points
4% slightly better overall score
1836 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
40 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3987 points
2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3877 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43067 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
40609 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48969 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
37797 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
34371 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points
45743 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz
1284 MHz
35% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
55% significantly higher pixel rate
41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s
7% slightly higher texture rate
164.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS
7% slightly better floating point performance
5.26 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
37% slightly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
37% slightly more texture mapping units
128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

220th of 604
223rd of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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