AMD Radeon R9 290X vs Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580

Comparison of the technical characteristics between the graphics cards, with AMD Radeon R9 290X on one side and Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 on the other side. The first is dedicated to the desktop sector, it has 2816 shading units, a maximum frequency of 1.0 GHz, its lithography is 28 nm. The second is used on the desktop segment, it includes 2304 shading units, a maximum frequency of 1.4 GHz, its lithography is 14 nm. The following table also compares the boost clock, the number of shading units (if indicated), of execution units, the amount of cache memory, the maximum memory capacity, the memory bus width, the release date, the number of PCIe lanes, the values ​​obtained in various benchmarks.

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Specification comparison:

Graphics card		AMD Radeon R9 290X				Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580
Market (main)		Desktop				Desktop
Release date		Q4 2013				Q2 2017
Model number		215-0852000, Hawaii XT				Polaris 20 XTX 215-0910038, 11265-05-20G
GPU name		Hawaii				Polaris 20
Architecture		GCN 2.0				GCN 4.0
Generation		Volcanic Islands R9 200				Polaris RX 500
Lithography		28 nm				14 nm
Transistors		6,200,000,000				5,700,000,000
Bus interface		PCIe 3.0 x16				PCIe 3.0 x16
GPU base clock		1,000 MHz				1,257 MHz
GPU boost clock		1,000 MHz				1,366 MHz
Memory frequency		1,250 MHz				2,000 MHz
Effective memory speed		5 Gbps				8 Gbps
Memory size		4 GB				8 GB
Memory type		GDDR5				GDDR5
Memory bus		512 bit				256 bit
Memory bandwidth		320.0 GB/s				256.0 GB/s
TDP		290 W				185 W
Suggested PSU		600W ATX Power Supply				500W ATX Power Supply
Multicard technology		-				-
Outputs		2x DVI 1x HDMI 1x DisplayPort				1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
Max display resolution		-				4096 x 2160 (Digital), 3840 x 2160@60Hz (HDMI)
Video decoding		-				H.265, HEVC, H.264 4K
Video encoding		-				H.265, HEVC, H.264 4K
Cores (compute units, SM, SMX)		44				36
Shading units		2,816				2,304
TMUs		176				144
ROPs		64				32
Cache memory		1 MB				2 MB
Pixel fillrate		64.0 GP/s				43.7 GP/s
Texture fillrate		176.0 GT/s				196.7 GT/s
Performance FP32 (float)		5.6 TFLOPS				6.3 TFLOPS
Performance FP64 (double)		704 GFLOPS				393.4 GFLOPS
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Performance comparison with the benchmarks:

Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.

	FP32 Performance in GFLOPS
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580	6,295
AMD Radeon R9 290X	5,632

The difference is 12%.

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average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.

Single precision floating point format, also known as FP32, is a computer number format that typically occupies 32 bits in PC memory. This represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values that employs a floating point.

See also:

AMD Radeon R9 290AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Equivalence:

AMD Radeon R9 290X Nvidia equivalentSapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 Nvidia equivalent

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