Radeon HD 7560D IGP vs Radeon R9 290

Radeon HD 7560D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 2 Oct 2012
Radeon HD 7560D IGP
Radeon R9 290
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 290

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7560D IGP

210 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 290

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7560D IGPRadeon R9 290
GPU NameDevastator ()vsHawaii (Hawaii PRO)
Fab Process32 nmvs28 nm
Die Size246 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors1,303 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders256vs2560
Compute Units4vs40
Core clock760 MHzvs947 MHz
ROPs8vs64
TMUs16vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7560D IGPRadeon R9 290
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs512 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7560D IGPRadeon R9 290
TDP65 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date2 Oct 2012vs5 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7560D IGP
    6.08 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    60.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7560D IGP
    12.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    152.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7560D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7560D IGP
    389.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290
    4849.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better