AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 3 September 2015
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

11.4x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 448

Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 448

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.128

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Grenada
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	3 September 2015
Place in performance rating	1317	262
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	2x 2560
Core clock speed		1000 MHz
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		580 Watt
Transistor count		6,200 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		4x 8-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5