AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2160 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +682%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 5690

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

5

2560

Shading Units

400

160

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Redwood

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

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

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 VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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