Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon R9 290

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon HD 7870

Model

  Radeon R9 290

  35.1

benchmarks
Total performance

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

Architecture

  -

  28

Process, nm

  -

  2012

Release year

  1280

Shaders

  -

  1000

Core frequency

  -

  1000

Shaders frequency

  -

  GDDR5

Memory type

  -

  4800

Memory frequency

  -

  256

Memory bus

  -

  11.1

DirectX

  -

  4.2

OpenGL

  -

• 1002 6818
• 1002 679E

System device ids

• 1002 67B1

• Asus M5A97 R2.0
• Asrock Z77 Extreme4
• Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
• Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
• Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
• Asus P8Z77-V LX
• Dell XPS 8500

Popular builds

• Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
• Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
• MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)
• MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)
• Asus M5A97 R2.0
• MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)
• Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P