AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1725MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 +94%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

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Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Apr 2013

Navi

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Malta

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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