NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP +286%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1740 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

2816

192

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

392 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.3

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