AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8570 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +709%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8570 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 8570 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

6

-

2560

Shading Units

384

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Oland

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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