AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

AMD Radeon R9 290

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 +361%

16991

Radeon R9 290

3684

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

54

Compute Units

40

-

3456

Shading Units

2560

216

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

-

54

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

48 MB

L3 Cache

-

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

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 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

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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