ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +107%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Jun 2014

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

44

1600

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

580W

550 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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