NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +445%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 50

Generation

Pirate 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

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/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

67.20 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

275W

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

Grenada

GB205

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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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