AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2656 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +2170%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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Radeon R5 235 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

2

2816

Shading Units

160

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Caicos

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

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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