Radeon HD 7990 vs Radeon R9 290

Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990
Radeon R9 290
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 290

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7990
    120%
  • Radeon R9 290
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 7990
    127%
  • Radeon R9 290
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990

27% higher gaming 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (5 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7990Radeon R9 290
GPU NameMalta ()vsHawaii (Hawaii PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size365 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2048vs2560
Compute Units32vs40
Core clock950 MHzvs947 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs128vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7990Radeon R9 290
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bit x2vs512 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7990Radeon R9 290
TDP375 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date24 Apr 2013vs5 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    60.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    152.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290
    4849.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530
  • Radeon R9 290
    15440

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • Radeon HD 7990
    128
  • Radeon R9 290
    89

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon HD 7990
    122
  • Radeon R9 290
    90

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 7990
    79
  • Radeon R9 290
    53

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • Radeon HD 7990
    79
  • Radeon R9 290
    80

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • Radeon HD 7990
    71
  • Radeon R9 290
    63

FPS (higher is better)