AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+501%
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Aug 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1920 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
2560
Shading Units
5888
160
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
AD104
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.3
Shader Model
6.8
