NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +472%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 50

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

50

SM Count

-

6400

Shading Units

2816

200

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

Hawaii

GB205

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.3

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