Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon R9 M290X

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon HD 7870

Model

  Radeon R9 M290X

benchmarks
Total performance

  26.2

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

Architecture

  GCN(Neptune)

  28

Process, nm

  28

  2012

Release year

  1280

Shaders

  1280

  1000

Core frequency

  850

  -

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  900

  1000

Shaders frequency

  -

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  4800

Memory frequency

  4800

  256

Memory bus

  256

  11.1

DirectX

  12 (FL 11_1)

  4.2

OpenGL

  4.3

• 1002 6818
• 1002 679E

System device ids

• 1002 6801
• 1002 6810

• 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

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