Comparison of AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Radeon R9 290

Attribute	Radeon R9 290 ×	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2013	2012
Reference card	-	AMD Radeon HD 7970 925 MHz 3 GB
GPU brand	AMD	AMD
GPU name	Hawaii	Tahiti XT2
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	947	1,000
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	947	1,050
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon R9 290	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory
Memory (MB)	4,096	3,072
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	320	288
Memory bus (bit)	512	384
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,125	1,500
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	5,000	6,000
Noise and power
TDP (W)	300	300
Load power consumption (W)	381	360
Idle power consumption (W)	87	112
Load noise level (dB)	57.2	53.1
Idle noise level (dB)	39.5	40.2
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	60.6	33.6
Render output processors	64	32
Texture mapping units	160	128
Shading units	2,560	2,048
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	4,800	4,301
Compute units	40	32
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	152	134.4
Benchmarks
Crysis 3	51	28.3
Bioshock Infinite	-	78
Face detection (mPixels/s)	108.61	94.02
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3355.58	2798.85
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3713.44	2984.22
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	545.44	487.62
Sky Diver Factor	410.95	380.04
Fire Strike Factor	71.97	62.9
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	2474.12	-