AMD Radeon R9 285X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Unknown
Jan 2012
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
264.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
32
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.06 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.3 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.104 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tonga
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Tonga XT(215-0851313)
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
GCN 3.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.3
6.5 (5.1)

📊 Benchmark

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