AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 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 288.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2535MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +354%

22.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3681

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +266%

13492

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

May 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

4352

160

TMUs

136

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

136

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD106

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

AD106-351-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 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

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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