AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Sky 700 and AMD Radeon HD 7790 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Sky 700

AMD Radeon HD 7790

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 700

Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel / s vs 56 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 1792 vs 896
Around 80% better floating-point performance: 3,226 gflops vs 1,792 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB

Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel / s vs 56 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 896
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops vs 1,792 gflops
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7790

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Sky 700
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7790

Name	AMD Radeon Sky 700	AMD Radeon HD 7790
PassMark - G3D Mark		3090
PassMark - G2D Mark		459
Geekbench - OpenCL		14832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		40.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		828.247
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.646
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		63.284
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		217.744
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5087
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		988
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2061
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5087
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		988
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2061
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Sky 700	AMD Radeon HD 7790
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Tahiti	Bonaire
Launch date	27 March 2013	22 March 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	836
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$149
Price now		$134.99
Value for money (0-100)		29.57
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops	1,792 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1792	896
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel / s	56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	85 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	2,080 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support
DisplayPort support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	183 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	176 GB / s	96 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5