Radeon RX 7700S vs R9 390X2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated114
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data27.00
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 33
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores22048
Core clock speedno data1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz2500 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,300 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data320.0
Floating-point processing powerno data20.48 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 type512GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width5400 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR512 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390X2 and Radeon RX 7700S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 390X2 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 7700S is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 390X2
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