Radeon R9 390X2 vs R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking782not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameKaveri Spectreno data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 January 2014 (11 years ago)no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5122
Core clock speed720 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno data512
Memory bus widthno data5400 Bit
Shared memory+no data

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)GDDR5

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AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)
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