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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2013 Jun 2012
Generation Sea Islands Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 950 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 32
Shading Units 2048 2048
TMUs 128 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 134.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Malta Tahiti
GPU Variant Malta XT(215-0849026) Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 365 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 375W 300W
Suggested PSU 750 W 700 W
Outputs 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 5.1