AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +340%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Feb 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

10

2816

Shading Units

640

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

80.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

80W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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