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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +469%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 390
5.12 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Aug 2024
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 40
Generation
Pirate 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
1500 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/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
64.00 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
160.0 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.120 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
640.0 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
Grenada
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Grenada PRO (215-0880030)
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
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