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Radeon R9 290 vs RTX 5880 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (275W vs 285W)
RTX 5880 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2460MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
11520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4849
RTX 5880 Ada Generation +1328%
69270

Graphics Card

Nov 2013
Release Date
Jan 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
975 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2460 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s

Render Config

40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
110
2560
Shading Units
14080
160
TMUs
440
64
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
440
-
RT Cores
110
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
72 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
433.0 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1082 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
69.27 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
69.27 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1082 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W
TDP
285W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii
GPU Name
AD102
Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)
GPU Variant
AD102
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.3
Shader Model
6.7
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