AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +214%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

14

-

2816

Shading Units

1120

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

175W

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 XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

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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