AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7990

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1266MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7990

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +42%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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