NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 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 4060 AD106 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 +211%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

-

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

24

SM Count

-

3072

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

275W

300 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 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Hawaii

AD106-155-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

22.9 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

188 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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