AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 +286%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

2816

Shading Units

6144

176

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA102

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GA102-150-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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