Radeon HD 7970 Vs Radeon R9 290X - HWBench

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Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R9 290X

Radeon HD 7970Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOPRelease date: 22 Dec 2011

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

Summary

Synthetic performance index

• Radeon HD 7970100%
• Radeon R9 290X150%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

• Radeon HD 7970100%
• Radeon R9 290X147%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X .

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

47% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 (8 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7970	Radeon R9 290X
GPU Name	Tahiti (Tahiti XT)	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	925 MHz	vs	1000 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	64
TMUs	128	vs	176

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7970	Radeon R9 290X
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	384 bit	vs	512 bit
Memory Speed	1375 MHz 5500 MHz effective	vs	1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective
Memory Size	3072 Mb	vs	4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7970	Radeon R9 290X
TDP	250 watts	vs	290 watts
Release Date	22 Dec 2011	vs	24 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

• Radeon HD 797029.60 GP/s
• Radeon R9 290X64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

• Radeon HD 7970118.00 GT/s
• Radeon R9 290X176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

• Radeon HD 7970264.00 GB/s
• Radeon R9 290X320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

• Radeon HD 79703789.00 GFLOPs
• Radeon R9 290X5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

• Radeon HD 797010760
• Radeon R9 290X16210

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

1920x12002560x1440 (WQHD)1920x1080 (Full HD)

Battlefield 4

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

• Radeon HD 797067
• Radeon R9 290X92

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

• Radeon HD 797062
• Radeon R9 290X95

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

• Radeon HD 797040
• Radeon R9 290X55

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

• Radeon HD 797060
• Radeon R9 290X82

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

• Radeon HD 797043
• Radeon R9 290X67

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

• Radeon HD 797039
• Radeon R9 290X62

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

• Radeon HD 797039
• Radeon R9 290X58

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

• Radeon HD 797054
• Radeon R9 290X83

FPS (higher is better)

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