NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+501%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 40
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
2560
184
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
36 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Hawaii
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
294 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
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.3
