Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

255 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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 8990 OEM
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsMalta ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2048vs2048
Compute Units32vs32
Core clock926 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 8990 OEM
TDP120 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better