AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 8670 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290 AMD Radeon HD 8670 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8670 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 73.60GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8670 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +501%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8670 OEM

0.806 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 8670 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

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

6

2560

Shading Units

384

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.400 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

806.4 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Oland

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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