AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +1911%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

44

-

160

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

Hawaii

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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