AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +78%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

20

-

2560

Shading Units

1600

160

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

188W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cypress

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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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