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Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R9 290X

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Performance score

Radeon R9 290 · 4 GB GDDR5
8.42
Radeon R9 290X · 4 GB GDDR5
8.42
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Radeon R9 290 and Radeon R9 290X are almost equally fast (under 3% apart) — choose by price, socket and platform.

The score is our own estimate from the specs (core count, clock, architecture), not FPS from benchmarks. 100 = the fastest card in our database.

Overview

Radeon R9 290Radeon R9 290X
Score (0–100) 8.42 8.42
Ranking position 175 176
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Type Desktop Desktop
Architecture GCN GCN

Specifications

Radeon R9 290Radeon R9 290X
Shader cores 2560 2560
Boost clock 947 MHz 947 MHz
FP32 TFLOPS (calculated) 4.85 4.85
Hardware ray tracing no no

Video memory

Radeon R9 290Radeon R9 290X
VRAM 4 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus 512 bit 512 bit
Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s 320 GB/s

Pros and cons

Radeon R9 290

  • no notable advantages

Radeon R9 290X

  • no notable advantages

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