AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2535MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 +291%

22.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

4352

176

TMUs

136

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

136

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

AD104-150-K1-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

580W

TDP

160W

950 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 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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