AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7990

AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 224.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1244MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7990

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X +24%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

VS

Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

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

39.81 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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