AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1188 MHz vs 1000 MHz
82.3x more texture fill rate: 179.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 580 Watt

Launch date	1 Mar 2017 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed	1188 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	179.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2304
4.3x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1250 MHz (5000 MHz effective)

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2304
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1250 MHz (5000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	532
PassMark - G3D Mark	6715
Geekbench - OpenCL	29043
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Arctic Islands	Hawaii
Launch date	1 Mar 2017	24 June 2014
Place in performance rating	240	282
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1243 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1188 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	358.0 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.728 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	39.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	179.0 GTexel/s	2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	1 inches (25 mm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	4x 8-pin
Width	MXM Module
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz (5000 MHz effective)	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)