| Attribute | Radeon HD 9970 × | Radeon R9 290X Battlefield 4 × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2013 | 2013 |
| GPU brand | AMD | AMD |
| GPU name | Hawaii XT | Hawaii |
| Market | Desktop | - |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 1,000 | 800 |
| Turbo clock speed (MHz) | - | 1,000 |
| Is dual GPU | - | - |
| Model | Radeon HD 9970 | Radeon R9 290X Battlefield 4 |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 4,096 | 4,096 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 307 | - |
| Memory bus (bit) | 512 | 512 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,250 | 1,250 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 255 | 250 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 64 | 35.2 |
| Render output processors | 64 | 44 |
| Texture mapping units | 256 | 176 |
| Shading units | 4,096 | 2,816 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 8,192 | 4,506 |
| Compute units | 16 | 11 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 168 | - |