AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 9 months late

Boost Clock2544MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (245W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +625%

35.17 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7700 XT +362%

17023

Radeon R9 290

3681

Radeon RX 7700 XT

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Nov 2013

Navi III

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

-

2544 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

54

Compute Units

40

3456

Shading Units

2560

216

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

54

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

245W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

2

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

4

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

5

AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

8

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

9

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

10

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

Related News

1

AMD's Strix Halo Supports Up to 128GB Memory, Clearly Designed for AI Large Language Models

2

AMD to Launch Advanced Ryzen AI PRO Series Soon

3

Intel Delays Lunar Lake Shipment: Postponed from June to September

4

Initial Test Results of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Revealed: IPC Improvement Meets Expectations

5

Elon Musk Responds to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: Humanoid Robots Will Be Ten Times More Common than Cars

6

AMD Revives Multi-GPU Support: Up to Four Cards and 192GB VRAM

7

TSMC Explores Advanced Chip Packaging Technology: Switches to Rectangular Substrate, Nearly Tripling Usable Area on 300mm Wafers

8

Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 SSD Launched: Up to 8TB Capacity with Mixed TLC/QLC Flash

9

Apple's Most Powerful Laptop is Coming: A Preview of the New MacBook Pro

10

AMD Breakthrough: Ryzen AI HX 370 Processor Benchmark Revealed with Aggressive Performance