Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 9070 GRE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 GRE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 9070 GRE 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock2790MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon RX 9070 GRE
+497%
34280
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
May 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1330 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2790 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
48
-
SM Count
46
2816
Shading Units
3072
176
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
267.8 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
535.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.57 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.28 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1071.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
220W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Navi 48
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
12.0
6.3
Shader Model
6.8
