Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce RTX 4070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
GeForce RTX 4070
+408%
29150
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Apr 2023
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1920 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
504.2GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
2816
Shading Units
5888
176
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
200W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
AD104
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
AD104-250-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
295 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.3
Shader Model
6.7