Radeon R9 290 and Radeon HD 7790 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon HD 7790
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon HD 7790
3183
Radeon R9 290
Radeon HD 7790
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
March 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
1,792 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
896
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
85 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
56.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131