NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (285W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +611%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

7680

Shading Units

2816

240

TMUs

176

80

ROPs

64

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Hawaii

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

285W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x 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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