Radeon R9 290 and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon R9 290
GeForce 7800 GTX
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Hawaii
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
June 2005
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Core clock speed
947 MHz
430 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
86 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
10.32
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A