ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition vs R9 290

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking262not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.02no data
Power efficiency5.24no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameHawaiiJuniper
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 November 2013 (11 years ago)18 July 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 $119

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560640
Core clock speed947 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt64 Watt
Texture fill rate151.524.00
Floating-point processing power4.849 TFLOPS0.96 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs16032

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length275 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s64 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 November 2013 18 July 2010
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 64 Watt

R9 290 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 5670 640SP Edition, on the other hand, has 329.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290 and Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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