AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +3543%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

2

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cedar

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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