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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2012 Jan 2014
Generation Southern Islands Gem System
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 20
Shading Units 2048 1280
TMUs 128 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.60 GPixel/s 28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 134.4 GTexel/s 72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.301 TFLOPS 2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1075 GFLOPS 144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Neptune
GPU Variant Tahiti XT2(215-0821065) Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 300W 100W
Suggested PSU 700 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.170
Shader Model 5.1 6.5 (5.1)