Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon R9 290X

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon Pro Duo and Radeon R9 290X, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon Pro Duo stacks up against Radeon R9 290X, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon Pro Duo Radeon R9 290X
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 250 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 3x 8-pin 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Memory type High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon Pro Duo has 40% more power consumption, than Radeon R9 290X.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon Pro Duo has 4 GB more memory, than Radeon R9 290X.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon Pro Duo is build with GCN 3.0 architecture, and Radeon R9 290X - with GCN.
  • Radeon Pro Duo and Radeon R9 290X are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Radeon Pro Duo is 2 mm longer, than Radeon R9 290X.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 290X is 750 MHz higher, than Radeon Pro Duo.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 50−55 35−40
ultra / 1080p 30−35 24−27
QHD / 1440p 27−30 18−20
4K / 2160p 14−16 10−11
low / 720p 75−80 60−65
medium / 1080p 60−65 45−50
The average gaming FPS of Radeon Pro Duo in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 33% more, than Radeon R9 290X.

Full Specs

  Radeon Pro Duo Radeon R9 290X
Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN
Code name Capsaicin Hawaii XT
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 26 April 2016 24 October 2013
Pipelines 4096 2816
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 947 MHz
Transistor count 8,900 million 6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 256.0 176.0
Floating-point performance 2x 8,192 gflops 5,632 gflops
Length 277 mm 275 mm
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 320 GB/s
Shared memory -
Shader Model 6.0 6.3
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
Vulkan + +
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.76 kh/s
FreeSync + +
Bus support PCIe 3.0 PCIe 3.0
HDMI + +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 809 Mh/s 623 Mh/s
Eyefinity + +
HD3D + +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio + +
ZeroCore +
Mantle +
Design reference reference
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support + +
CrossFire + +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 1.07 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 25.75 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 350 Sol/s
Compute units 128
AppAcceleration + +
LiquidVR + +
TressFX + +
UVD + +
Enduro +
FRTC +
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