NVIDIA RTX A400 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA RTX A400

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A400 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 A400 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1762MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +108%

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX A400

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

Quadro Ampere(Ax000)

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1417 MHz

Base Clock

-

1762 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

2816

24

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

24

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.19 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

42.29 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

2.706 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.706 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

42.29 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

200 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.3

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