AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

ATI Radeon HD 5690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1904 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +840%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Feb 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

5

-

2304

Shading Units

400

144

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Redwood

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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