NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock 2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +211%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4060 +188%

10628

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce RTX 4060

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830MHz

Base Clock

-

2460MHz

Boost Clock

-

2125MHz

Memory Clock

1250MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

272.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

3072

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24MB

L2 Cache

1024KB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Hawaii

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18,900 million

Transistors

6,200 million

159mm²

Die Size

438mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

275W

300W

Suggested PSU

600W

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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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