Radeon HD 7990 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 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 HD 7990		15520 points
Radeon RX 580		13630 points
	Difference: 1890 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7990		32 Mh/s
Radeon RX 580		28 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (14%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7990		513 Sol/s
Radeon RX 580		315 Sol/s
	Difference: 198 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
Radeon HD 7990		375 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (103%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7990 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 580 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7990		576000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 313856 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7990 will be a lot (approximately 34%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

Radeon HD 7990		243200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62192 (34%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7990 is quite a bit (about 51%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 580, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 7990		60800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20576 (51%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.