AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5700 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 RX 5700

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5700

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1465 MHz vs 1000 MHz
3.2x lower typical power consumption: 180 Watt vs 580 Watt
Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.941 vs 19.441

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 July 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed	1465 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt vs 580 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.941 vs 19.441

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

8.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 248.4 GT/s

Texture fill rate	2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 248.4 GT/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

21.941

19.441

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5700	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	14499
PassMark - G2D Mark	889
Geekbench - OpenCL	66229
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	209.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3686.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.941	19.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	250
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1036.448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8500

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5700	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 2.0
Code name	Navi 10	Hawaii
Launch date	7 July 2019	24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$350	$1,399
Place in performance rating	177	282
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1725 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1465 MHz	1000 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.9 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.95 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	110.4 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	248.4 GT/s	2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	10.3 B	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		2x 2816
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin and 1x6 pin	4x 8-pin
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_0)
Vulkan
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready