GeForce GT 440 vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 440
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    1544%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

310 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1444% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 7990
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsMalta ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders96vs2048
Compute Units2vs32
Core clock810 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 7990
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 7990
TDP65 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2011vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 440
    1200
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)