Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2013 | Jun 2010 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | Evergreen |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1195 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 1024MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 512bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 320.0GB/s | 153.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 40 | 20 |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 1600 |
| TMUs | 160 | 80 |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 60.61 GPixel/s | 27.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 151.5 GTexel/s | 68.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.849 TFLOPS | 2.720 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 606.1 GFLOPS | 544.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Hawaii | Cypress |
| GPU Variant | Hawaii PRO(215-0852020) | Cypress XT(215-0735033) |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | TeraScale 2 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 6.2 billion | 2.154 billion |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 334 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 275W | 228W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 5.0 |