AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +219%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X +199%

3925

Radeon HD 7850

1312

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

16

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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