NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +348%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +306%

14963

Radeon R9 290

3681

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

6144

Shading Units

2560

192

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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