AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1860MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +724%

40 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +500%

22133

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1560 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1860 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

2560

Shading Units

10752

160

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.3 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

625.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

40.00 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

625.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

450W

600 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA102

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GA102-350-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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