AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +286%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1740 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/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

580W

TDP

290W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.8

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