AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +1631%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

2

-

2560

Shading Units

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

18W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Caicos

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

2

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

3

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

4

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FirePro V5800

5

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

6

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FireGL V8600

7

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200

8

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI

9

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5570

10

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA NVS 510

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early