AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2245MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (260W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +848%

45.98 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +506%

22344

Radeon R9 290

3684

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jul 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

1287 MHz

Base Clock

-

2245 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

40

-

5120

Shading Units

2560

320

TMUs

160

ROPs

64

-

80

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

359.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

718.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

91.96 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

45.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

1437 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

260W

TDP

275W

600 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 31

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 31 XL (215-145000206)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

529 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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