AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (1845MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +26%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Dec 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

22

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

Navi 14

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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