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AMD Radeon R9 290: specs and benchmarks

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Price now
148$
Games supported
88%
Year of release
2013
Performance
27.55%

General info

Value for money
20.78
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Release date
05 November 2013
Launch price (MSRP)
399$
Price now
148$

Value for money

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Technical specs

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
Core clock speed
947 MHz
Number of transistors
6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
275 mm
Width
2 -slot
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Memory type
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-

Technologies

API support

DirectX
12 (12_0)
Shader Model
6.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
Mining hashrates
Information about the performance of the video card : name in cryptocurrency mining. Usually, the standard unit of measurement mhesh/c is the number of millions of solutions that the video card generates per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
545.00
Decred / DCR (Decred)
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
30.00
Siacoin / SC (Sia)
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
285.00
Recommended processors
We recommend several video cards for comparison that are close in performance.
Radeon R9 290
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Quadro K6000
GeForce GTX 780
GeForce GTX TITAN
Recommended processors
According to our statistics, the processors listed below are most often used in conjunction with Radeon R9 290.
3.5%
FX-8350
2.4%
Core i5-3470
2.3%
Ryzen 5 3600
2.3%
Core i5-4460
2.3%
FX-6300
1.9%
Ryzen 5 2600
1.8%
Core i7-3770
1.8%
Core i5-4690
1.6%

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