AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Apr 2023
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 40
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1313 MHz
Base Clock
-
1920 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2475 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
512bit
192bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
504.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
-
Shading Units
2560
5888
TMUs
160
184
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
36 MB
SM Count
-
46
Tensor Cores
-
184
RT Cores
-
46
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
158.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
AD104
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
AD104-250-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
35.8 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
295 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
200W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
CUDA
-
8.9
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
17,887
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
7,907
OctaneBench
-
640
3DMark Speed Way
-
5,508
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
82
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
-
54
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
160
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
-
93
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
256
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
-
130
Blender
-
5,818
GTA 5 2160p
-
132
GTA 5 1440p
-
144
GTA 5 1080p
-
190
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
-
101
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
-
78
Horizon Forbidden West 2160p
-
49