AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 VII

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 93% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 580 Watt
Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.606 vs 21.128

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 February 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 580 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.606 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

5x more texture fill rate: 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 432.24 GT/s
Around 33% higher pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 3840
2.7x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Texture fill rate	2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 432.24 GT/s
Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 3840
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon VII
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

21.606

21.128

Name	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	16690
PassMark - G2D Mark	786
Geekbench - OpenCL	89406
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.606	21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9292

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega 20	Grenada
Design	AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation	5th Gen
Launch date	7 February 2019	3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$1,399
Place in performance rating	214	246
Price now	$699.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	3840	2x 2560
Pixel fill rate	115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors	3840
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s	2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore