NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 4 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+408%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Apr 2014
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
44
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
2816
184
TMUs
176
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
65.15 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Vesuvius
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
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
