Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon RX 9070
+530%
36130
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1330 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
56
2816
Shading Units
3584
176
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
56
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
220W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Navi 48
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.8
