AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +33%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

2560

Shading Units

1920

160

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP104

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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