Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon R9 290X

Model

  Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

  68.8

benchmarks
Total performance

  -

  GCN(Hawaii XT)

Architecture

  GCN(Neptune CF)

  28

Process, nm

  28

  2013

Release year

  -

  2816

Shaders

  2560

  1000

Core frequency

  850

  -

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  900

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  5000

Memory frequency

  4800

  512

Memory bus

  2x 256

  12 (FL 12_0)

DirectX

  11.1

  4.3

OpenGL

  4.2

  32271.0

benchmarks
3DMark06

  26430.0

  14449.5

benchmarks
Cinebench R10

  8134.0

 

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System device ids

 

     

    • 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)

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