AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 5770

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5770 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +314%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5770

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 5770

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

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

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

10

2816

Shading Units

800

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Juniper

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Juniper XT (215-0754013)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

108W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

1x 6-pin

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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