GeForce 7800 GTX and Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition - video card comparison

GeForce 7800 GTX

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

G70

Pitcairn

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2005

November 2014

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

975 MHz

Core clock speed

430 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

302 million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

86 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.32

62.40

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

174.7 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2