Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Vs Radeon R9 290X - HWBench

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs Radeon R9 290X

Radeon HD 7970 GHz EditionMemory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOPRelease date: 22 Jun 2012

Radeon R9 290XMemory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOPRelease date: 24 Oct 2013

Summary

Synthetic performance index

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition100%
• Radeon R9 290X149%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition100%
• Radeon R9 290X138%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports Mantle

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290X

38% higher gaming performance.

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports FreeSync

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports TrueAudio

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290X

The Radeon R9 290X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (14 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition	Radeon R9 290X
GPU Name	Tahiti (Tahiti XT2)	vs	Hawaii (Hawaii XT)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	352 mm²	vs	438 mm²
Transistors	4,313 million	vs	6,200 million
Shaders	2048	vs	2816
Compute Units	32	vs	44
Core clock	1000 MHz	vs	1000 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	64
TMUs	128	vs	176

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition	Radeon R9 290X
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	384 bit	vs	512 bit
Memory Speed	1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective	vs	1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective
Memory Size	3072 Mb	vs	4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition	Radeon R9 290X
TDP	300 watts	vs	290 watts
Release Date	22 Jun 2012	vs	24 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition32.00 GP/s
• Radeon R9 290X64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition128.00 GT/s
• Radeon R9 290X176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition288.00 GB/s
• Radeon R9 290X320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition4096.00 GFLOPs
• Radeon R9 290X5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition10830
• Radeon R9 290X16210

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

1920x12001920x1080 (Full HD)2560x1440 (WQHD)3840x2160 (4K)

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition71
• Radeon R9 290X92

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition68
• Radeon R9 290X95

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition44
• Radeon R9 290X55

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition71
• Radeon R9 290X80

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition65
• Radeon R9 290X82

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition47
• Radeon R9 290X67

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition40
• Radeon R9 290X66

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition64
• Radeon R9 290X83

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition32
• Radeon R9 290X49

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition33
• Radeon R9 290X48

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition45
• Radeon R9 290X62

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition46
• Radeon R9 290X58

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition26
• Radeon R9 290X39

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

• Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition16
• Radeon R9 290X24

FPS (higher is better)

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