Radeon HD 7790 Overview

Radeon HD 7790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7790

Core Configuration

GPU Bonaire
Architecture AMD_GCN_1_1
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 896 : 56 : 16
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1792.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width 128 bit
Memory Speed 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 96.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    566%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    517%
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    507%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    499%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    489%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    458%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    440%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    393%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    370%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    362%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    344%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    330%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    327%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    327%
  • Radeon R9 290
    305%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    287%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    253%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    249%
  • Radeon R9 285
    239%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    236%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    236%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    223%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    210%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    208%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    205%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    200%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    189%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    186%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    185%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    180%
  • Radeon R9 270
    176%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    168%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    167%
  • Radeon R7 265
    156%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    152%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    149%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    137%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    133%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    130%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    126%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    126%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    115%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    94%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    5%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 7790 is a graphics card released by AMD on 22 Mar 2013. The graphics card houses the Bonaire die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_1 architecture which packs 2,080 million transistors on a 28 nm, 160 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 7790 pros and cons

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 7790Radeon R7 260XGeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 6870
Radeon HD 7790Radeon R7 260XGeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 6870
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Shader units8968963841120
ROPs16163232
Graphics processorBonaireBonaireGF114Barts
Process size28 nm28 nm40 nm40 nm
Memory1024 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective)
Memory bus width128 bit128 bit256 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth96.00 Gb/s104.00 Gb/s128.00 Gb/s134.00 Gb/s
Release date22 Mar 20138 Oct 201325 Jan 201121 Oct 2010

Benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

  • Radeon R7 260X
    22
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19
  • Radeon HD 7790
    19
  • Radeon HD 6870
    18

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

  • Radeon R7 260X
    23
  • Radeon HD 7790
    20

FPS (higher is better)