Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2015 Aug 2012
Generation Pirate Islands Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1350 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 512bit 384bit
Bandwidth 345.6GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 40 32
Shading Units 2560 2048
TMUs 160 128
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 160.0 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.120 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 640.0 GFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Grenada New Zealand
GPU Variant Grenada PRO(215-0880030)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 580W 500W
Suggested PSU 950 W 900 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 4x 8-pin 3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.3 5.1