AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2025
Nov 2013
Generation
Navi IV
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1420 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2790 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
512bit
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
48
40
SM Count
46
-
Shading Units
3072
2560
TMUs
192
160
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
8 MB
1024 KB
L3 Cache
48 MB
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Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
267.8 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
535.7 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.57 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
34.28 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1071.4 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Navi 48
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XL
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
53.9 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
357 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
220W
275W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.8
6.3

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