AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +802%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

6

-

2816

Shading Units

480

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Turks

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 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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