AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL and AMD Radeon R9 290X 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 - 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

AMD Radeon R9 290X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1011 MHz vs 947 MHz
459.5x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 176.0 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 24 October 2013
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz vs 947 MHz
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s vs 176.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X

2.2x more pipelines: 2816 vs 1280
Around 79% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 757 vs 370
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8567 vs 4769

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2816 vs 1280
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	757 vs 370
PassMark - G3D Mark	8567 vs 4769

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

370

757

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4769

8567

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	AMD Radeon R9 290X
PassMark - G2D Mark	370	757
PassMark - G3D Mark	4769	8567
Geekbench - OpenCL		43410
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		117.322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2460.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.12
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		120.942
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		628.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3932

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	AMD Radeon R9 290X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Polaris 22	Hawaii
Launch date	1 February 2018	24 October 2013
Place in performance rating	288	289
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$549
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	947 MHz
Compute performance	20
Core clock speed	931 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1280	2816
Pixel fill rate	32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s	176.0 GTexel / s
Texture Units	65 Watt
Transistor count	5000 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		5,632 gflops
Stream Processors		2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		250 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		275 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	320 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio