AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +3087%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

2

-

1792

Shading Units

80

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cedar

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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