Radeon R9 290 vs HD 7950 Boost |
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| Better PassMark score | 7,049 | vs | 4,764 | Around 50% better PassMark score | |||
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| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 240 GB/s | Around 35% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 4,800 GFLOPS | vs | 3,315 GFLOPS | Around 45% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 60.6 GPixel/s | vs | 29.6 GPixel/s | More than 2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher clock speed | 947 MHz | vs | 850 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Higher texture rate | 152 GTexel/s | vs | 103.6 GTexel/s | More than 45% higher texture rate | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 3,072 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
| More shading units | 2,560 | vs | 1,792 | 768 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 112 | 48 more texture mapping units | |||
| More compute units | 40 | vs | 28 | 12 more compute units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 384 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,242 | vs | 2,725 | Around 20% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Higher memory clock speed | 1,250 MHz | vs | 1,125 MHz | More than 10% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly lower TDP | 200W | vs | 300W | Around 35% lower TDP | |||
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