AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Mar 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2518 MHz
Base Clock
-
1330 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2520 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
644.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
56
Shading Units
2560
3584
TMUs
160
224
ROPs
64
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
1024 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
56
L3 Cache
-
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
322.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
36.13 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
72.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 48
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Navi 48 XT(215-176600331)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
53.9 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
357 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
220W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
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