Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon HD 7790
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 560
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 560 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Baffin (Baffin XT) | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,000 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 1024 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 16 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 1090 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 560 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 560 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 85 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2017 | vs | 22 Mar 2013 |
Radeon RX 560
19.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 7790
16.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 560
76.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 7790
56.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 560
112.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7790
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 560
2457.60 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7790
1792.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better