Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon HD 7870

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon R9 290X

Model

  Radeon HD 7870

  68.8

benchmarks
Total performance

  35.1

  GCN(Hawaii XT)

Architecture

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

  28

Process, nm

  28

  2013

Release year

  2012

  2816

Shaders

  1280

  1000

Core frequency

  1000

  -

Shaders frequency

  1000

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  5000

Memory frequency

  4800

  512

Memory bus

  256

  12 (FL 12_0)

DirectX

  11.1

  4.3

OpenGL

  4.2

  32271.0

benchmarks
3DMark06

  23230.0

  14449.5

benchmarks
Cinebench R10

  11154.0

 

  • 1002 67B0

System device ids

 

  • 1002 6818
  • 1002 679E

 

  • Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z
  • Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
  • Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
  • Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
  • MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)
  • Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO
  • MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Popular builds

 

  • 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