Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs Radeon R9 390X

Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Radeon R9 390X
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 390X

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 8990 OEM .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 390X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 390X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8990 OEMRadeon R9 390X
GPU NameMalta ()vsGrenada (Grenada XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size365 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2048vs2816
Compute Units32vs44
Core clock950 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs128vs176

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8990 OEMRadeon R9 390X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bit x2vs512 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8990 OEMRadeon R9 390X
TDP375 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date24 Apr 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    60.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390X
    67.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    244.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390X
    184.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    576.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390X
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    7782.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390X
    5914.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better