AMD Radeon R9 290X vs 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
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
-
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
