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Radeon R9 290X and Radeon RX 7800 XT - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 7800 XT

Radeon R9 290X
7648
Radeon RX 7800 XT
24808

Radeon R9 290X

Radeon RX 7800 XT


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
RDNA 3

GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Navi 32

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
October 2013
August 2023

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

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

Boost clock speed
947 MHz
2430 MHz

Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm

Number of transistors
6,200 million
28,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
3840

Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
263 Watt

Texture fill rate
176.0
604.8

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB

Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
19500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
576.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Eyefinity
+
-

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
+
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
2.0
2.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.6

Shader Model
6.3
6.7

Vulkan
+
1.3

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-