AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon HD 8510 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon HD 8510 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8510 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2416 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8510 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +983%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8510 OEM

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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Radeon HD 8510 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

5

2816

Shading Units

400

176

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Redwood

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

39W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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