Radeon HD 7990 Overview

Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Core Configuration

GPU Malta
Architecture AMD_GCN_1_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 2048 : 128 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 7782.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 3072 Mb
Memory Bus Width 384 bit x2
Memory Speed 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 576.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • Radeon HD 7990
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 690
    91%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    83%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    82%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    80%
  • Radeon R9 290
    80%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    74%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    65%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    64%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    64%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    62%
  • GeForce GTX 590
    59%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    57%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    55%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    54%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    53%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    53%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    52%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    49%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    49%
  • Radeon R9 270
    46%
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    44%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    42%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    41%
  • Radeon R7 265
    41%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    40%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    38%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    37%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    35%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    32%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    31%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    31%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    29%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    28%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    26%
  • Radeon HD 6950
    25%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    23%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    21%
  • Radeon HD 6850
    15%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 7990 is a graphics card released by AMD on 24 Apr 2013. The graphics card houses the Malta die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_0 architecture which packs 4,313 million transistors on a 28 nm, 365 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 7990 pros and cons

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 7990GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon R9 290Radeon R9 290XGeForce GTX TITAN
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Shader units20482880256028162688
ROPs3248646448
Graphics processorMaltaGK110BHawaiiHawaiiGK110
Process size28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm
Memory3072 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)
3072 Mb GDDR5 (1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective)
6144 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective)
Memory bus width384 bit x2384 bit512 bit512 bit384 bit
Memory bandwidth576.00 Gb/s336.00 Gb/s320.00 Gb/s320.00 Gb/s288.00 Gb/s
Release date24 Apr 20137 Nov 20135 Nov 201324 Oct 201319 Feb 2013

Benchmarks

Hitman Absolution

  • Radeon R9 290X
    80
  • Radeon R9 290
    80
  • Radeon HD 7990
    79
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    66
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    65

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

  • Radeon HD 7990
    122
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    112
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    101
  • Radeon R9 290X
    95
  • Radeon R9 290
    90

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 4

  • Radeon HD 7990
    128
  • Radeon R9 290X
    92
  • Radeon R9 290
    89
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    87
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    81

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

  • Radeon HD 7990
    71
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    70
  • Radeon R9 290X
    67
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    67
  • Radeon R9 290
    63

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

  • Radeon HD 7990
    79
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    62
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    61
  • Radeon R9 290X
    55
  • Radeon R9 290
    53

FPS (higher is better)