NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

AMD Radeon R9 290

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +242%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 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

40

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

2560

184

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

135.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

275W

550 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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