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Radeon HD 7990 and Radeon R9 280X - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7990 vs Radeon R9 280X

Radeon HD 7990
5732
Radeon R9 280X
6012

Radeon HD 7990

Radeon R9 280X


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name
Malta
Thaiti XTL

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
April 2013
October 2013

Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1000 MHz

Core clock speed
950 MHz
-

Floating-point performance
2x 4,096 gflops
4,096 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048

Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
250 Watt

Texture fill rate
128.0
128.0

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
3 GB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit

Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
-

Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
288 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity
-
+

HDMI
-
+

DisplayPort support
-
+

DirectX
12 (11_1)
DirectX® 12

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.6

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
1.2.131
+

AppAcceleration
-
+

CrossFire
-
1

DDMA audio
-
+

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
-
1

HD3D
-
+

LiquidVR
-
1

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
-
1

TrueAudio
-
+

UVD
-
+

ZeroCore
-
-