Radeon R9 290 and Radeon HD 5670 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon HD 5670
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon HD 5670
828
Radeon R9 290
Radeon HD 5670
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
775 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
620.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
400
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
64 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
15.50
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
64 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A