AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo vs AMD Radeon R9 290

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo and AMD Radeon R9 290 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

AMD Radeon R9 290

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 66% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 947 MHz
2906.3x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 151.5 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2560
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 4 GB
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14208 vs 6300
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14208 vs 6300
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 917 vs 775
Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15977 vs 8313

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	Dec 2019 vs 5 November 2013
Core clock speed	1574 MHz vs 947 MHz
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s vs 151.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	8192 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	64 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14208 vs 6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14208 vs 6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713 vs 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713 vs 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359 vs 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359 vs 3354
PassMark - G2D Mark	917 vs 775
PassMark - G3D Mark	15977 vs 8313

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290

Around 73% lower typical power consumption: 275 Watt vs 475 Watt
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 102277 vs 98432

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	275 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	102277 vs 98432

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

98432

102277

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

14208

6300

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

14208

6300

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3713

3711

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3713

3711

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3359

3354

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3359

3354

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

917

775

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15977

8313

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo	AMD Radeon R9 290
Geekbench - OpenCL	98432	102277
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14208	6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14208	6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713	3711
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713	3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359	3354
PassMark - G2D Mark	917	775
PassMark - G3D Mark	15977	8313
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		89.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1366.314
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		10.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		98.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		540.645
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3683

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo	AMD Radeon R9 290
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega 20	Hawaii
Launch date	Dec 2019	5 November 2013
Place in performance rating	161	347
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1720 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1574 MHz	947 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8192	2560
Pixel fill rate	110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s	151.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	475 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		4,849 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
Length		275 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	64 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	825.3 GB/s	320.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1612 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio