Radeon R9 390X2 vs R5 430 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking801not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.71no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameOlandno data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

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 cores3842
Core clock speed730 MHzno data
Boost clock speed780 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate18.72no data
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no data

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 x8no data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5512
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth36.8 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)GDDR5
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 430 OEM and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM
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