AMD Radeon R7 265 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265 +205%

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Feb 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

5

1024

Shading Units

400

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Redwood

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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