Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon R5 330 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 330 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 330 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock855MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+929%
5632
Radeon R5 330 OEM
547
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
May 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
830 MHz
-
Boost Clock
855 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
5
2816
Shading Units
320
176
TMUs
20
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.840 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.10 GTexel/s
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
547.2 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
290W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Hainan
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
