NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2175MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +374%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2013

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

2816

192

TMUs

176

80

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.3

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