Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon HD 5830
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
1696 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages
Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+219%
5733
Radeon HD 5830
1792
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Feb 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
14
2816
Shading Units
1120
176
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.80 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.792 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
175W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Cypress
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Cypress LE
(215-0735047)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
5.0
