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Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R9 290X
IntroThe Radeon HD 7970 comes with a GPU core speed of 925 MHz, and the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1375 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which features a core clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.
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Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High
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Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X will be 21% faster than the Radeon HD 7970 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R9 290X should be a small bit (approximately 19%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7970. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the Radeon HD 7970, by a large margin. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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One Response to “Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R9 290X”The R9 290x Is actually MORE efficient.
Cool.
Both are good cards.