AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +132%

4.849 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

18

-

2560

Shading Units

1440

160

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

302W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hemlock

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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