
Radeon HD 8330 and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8330
Radeon R9 290X2
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Kabini
Hawaii
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
June 2014
Interface
IGP
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
4x 8-pin
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,178 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
580 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.976
176.0
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
4 GB
Memory bus width
System Shared
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
345.6 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131