Radeon R9 295X2 and Radeon Sky 700 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 295X2
Radeon Sky 700
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
March 2013
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
900 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
179.2
100.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
176 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
1
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-