Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2970MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (304W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+748%
48660
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
1660 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2970 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
64
2816
Shading Units
4096
176
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
64
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
380.2 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
304W
900 W
Suggested PSU
700 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
(215-176600315)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 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
