AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2544MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (245W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 XT +524%

35.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

Radeon RX 7700 XT +332%

16991

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1435 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2544 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

54

-

2816

Shading Units

3456

176

TMUs

216

64

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

54

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

244.2 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

549.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

70.34 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.17 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1099 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

245W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 32

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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