GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2610MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (285W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+611%
40090
Radeon R9 290X
5632
Graphics Card
Jan 2023
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 40
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
-
2610 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
60
SM Count
-
7680
Shading Units
2816
240
TMUs
176
80
ROPs
64
240
Tensor Cores
-
60
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
208.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
626.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
40.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
40.09 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
626.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
285W
TDP
290W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Hawaii
AD104-400-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
295 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3