AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

ATI Radeon HD 5530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2736 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +5412%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5530

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon HD 5530

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Mar 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

2

-

2816

Shading Units

80

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

19W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Cedar

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

59 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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