AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1000MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +583%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

6

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

Oland

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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