AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +405%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

0.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2010

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

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

8

-

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

32

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

6.000 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

960.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

64W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Juniper

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Juniper CE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

166 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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