AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +417%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce RTX 4070 +354%

17856

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

2816

Shading Units

5888

176

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

AD104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

295 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

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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