NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
13824 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (275W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+1603%
82.58 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+883%
36328
Radeon R9 290
3694
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 40
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
128
SM Count
-
16384
Shading Units
2560
512
TMUs
160
176
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
72 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
275W
850 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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
Hawaii
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
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
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.3
