AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +30%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

44

-

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

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4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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