NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +194%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

2816

184

TMUs

176

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

64.00 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

580W

550 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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