Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4849
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+33%
6463
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+64%
6078
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Dec 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
2560
Shading Units
1920
160
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GP104
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.4