AMD Radeon RX 7800 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7800 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2800MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 +669%

37.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Nov 2013

Navi III

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

2800 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

40

3840

Shading Units

2560

240

TMUs

160

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

358.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

672.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

86.02 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

43.01 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 32 XT

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

275W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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