AMD Radeon R9 290

amd

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2560

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon R9 290

$399 Nov 2013 View Details
VS
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

576 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

$ Jul 2023 View Details
AMD Radeon R9 290

Radeon R9 290

$399 • Nov 2013

VS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

$ • Jul 2023

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Specs Comparison

SpecificationAMD Radeon R9 290AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
4 GB16 GB
GDDR5GDDR6
275 W260 W
N/AN/A
N/A2245 MHz
320 GB/s576 GB/s
28nm5nm
GCN 2.0RDNA 3.0
25605120
N/A80
160320
64160
512-bit 256-bit
1250 MHz2250 MHz
60.61 GPixel/s359.2 GPixel/s
320 GTexel/s576 GTexel/s
4.849 GFLOPS45.98 GFLOPS
1.00 MB6.00 MB
438 mm²529 mm²
6200 Million57700 Million
600 W600 W
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 8-pin
PCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
1212.2
N/A1.3
4.64.6
TSMCTSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Background
3DMark

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3535

AMD Radeon R9 290

21425 (+506%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Geekbench Background
Geekbench

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

41610

AMD Radeon R9 290

172224 (+314%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

GFXBench Background
GFXBench

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 290

279.4 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Passmark Background
Passmark

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

8150

AMD Radeon R9 290

27080 (+232%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Game Benchmarks Comparison

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Wins!

Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

0
Wins
Radeon R9 290
VS
0% vs 100%
4
Wins
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD • 4GB GDDR5

0
Wins
0%
Win Rate
3535
3DMark
41610
Geekbench
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

AMD • 16GB GDDR6

4
Wins
100%
Win Rate
21425
3DMark
172224
Geekbench

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