ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +1907%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Dec 2011

Evergreen

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

2

1440

Shading Units

80

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cedar

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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