NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +501%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +384%

17856

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

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

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

504.2GB/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

AD104-250-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

295 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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