AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1980MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary +147%

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1680 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1980 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

40

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

126.7 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

316.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.28 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.14 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

225W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

Navi 10

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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