Radeon R9 290X and Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon HD 5850
Radeon R9 290X
7648
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon HD 5850
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
September 2009
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-