AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI Radeon HD 5690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2416 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +808%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Feb 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

5

-

2816

Shading Units

400

176

TMUs

20

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

6.200 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

64W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Redwood

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

104 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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