AMD Radeon Pro 5600M vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
75.7x more texture fill rate: 164.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
11.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 580 Watt

Launch date	15 Jun 2020 vs 24 June 2014
Texture fill rate	164.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

2.2x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2560
7x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2560
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5600M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	47735
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
PassMark - G2D Mark	681
PassMark - G3D Mark	9233
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Navi 12	Hawaii
Launch date	15 Jun 2020	24 June 2014
Place in performance rating	278	275
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Compute units	40
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	329.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.55 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.274 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	65.92 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	164.8 GTexel/s	2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	580 Watt
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Transistor count		6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	4x 8-pin
Width	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	394.2 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)	5400 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5