AMD Radeon RX 7990 XTX vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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AMD Radeon RX 7990 XTX AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7990 XTX 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 7990 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock3599MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1152GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 405W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7990 XTX +1724%

88.45 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7990 XTX

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2013

Navi III

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2500 MHz

Base Clock

-

3599 MHz

Boost Clock

-

3000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

1152GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

96

Compute Units

40

6144

Shading Units

2560

384

TMUs

160

192

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

96

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

691.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

1382 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

176.9 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

88.45 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

2.764 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 31 XTX+

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

Board Design

405W

TDP

275W

800 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

3x 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

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