Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs R9 390

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking238not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation11.63no data
Power efficiency5.81no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGrenadaTahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferencereference
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)22 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 $499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25602048
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1050 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate160.0134.4
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS4.301 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs160128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0PCIe 2.1 x16
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length275 mm274 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)-no data
Maximum RAM amount0 MB3 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth384 GB/s288 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity++
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI++
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire++
FreeSync++
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 12DirectX® 11
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan+-
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 June 2015 22 June 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 250 Watt

R9 390 has an age advantage of 2 years.

HD 7970 GHz Edition, on the other hand, has 10% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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