AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5630

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 5630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5630 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +1065%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5630

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 5630

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

4

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.40 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

39W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Redwood

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

104 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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