AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 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 Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

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

1888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +1362%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 310 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon R5 310 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2015

Sea Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

160

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

35W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

Caicos

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

67 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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