Radeon R9 290 and Radeon RX 7700 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon RX 7700 XT
22912
Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX 7700 XT
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
RDNA 3
GPU code name
Hawaii
Navi 32
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
August 2023
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2544 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1700 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
28,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
3456
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
245 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
549.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
432.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3