AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2245MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (260W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +716%

45.98 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2023

Release Date

Jun 2014

Navi III

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1287 MHz

Base Clock

-

2245 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

44

5120

Shading Units

2816

320

TMUs

176

160

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

359.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

718.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

91.96 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

45.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1437 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 31 XL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

260W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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