AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5700 and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5700

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1465 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 180 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.941 vs 21.128
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 July 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed 1465 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt vs 580 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.941 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • 8.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 248.4 GT/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB
Texture fill rate 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 248.4 GT/s
Maximum memory size 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
21.941
21.128
Name AMD Radeon RX 5700 AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 14498
PassMark - G2D Mark 889
Geekbench - OpenCL 66232
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 209.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3686.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.941 21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 250
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1036.448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3366
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8500

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 2.0
Code name Navi 10 Grenada
Launch date 7 July 2019 3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $350 $1,399
Place in performance rating 177 246
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1725 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1465 MHz 1000 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.9 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.95 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 110.4 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 248.4 GT/s 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 10.3 B 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 2560

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin and 1x6 pin 4x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_0)
Vulkan
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready