Radeon HD 7770 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which has clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 390 8G		12733 points
Radeon HD 7770		3180 points
	Difference: 9553 (300%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7770		80 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (244%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390 8G should be much faster than the Radeon HD 7770 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7770		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 312000 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G should be much (about 300%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7770		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120000 (300%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390 8G is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7770		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.