AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 330 OEM 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 2GB)

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

2496 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +929%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 330 OEM

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon R5 330 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

830 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

5

-

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hainan

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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