NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 2 months late

Boost Clock2175MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +374%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jun 2014

Quadro Ada

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

1350 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

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

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

Board Design

130W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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