AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +529%

35.48 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3929

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +435%

21021

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1980 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

-

SM Count

56

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

7168

176

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

198.0 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

554.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

35.48 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.48 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

554.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

AD104-350-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

294 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

220W

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 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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