Radeon R9 290X and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-