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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

501%
501%

AMD Radeon R9 290X

22%
22%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is approximately 479% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
AD104
Hawaii
CoresDifferent
7680
2816
TMUsDifferent
240
176
ROPsDifferent
80
64
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
4 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
192 bit
512 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU NameDifferent
AD104
Hawaii
GPU VariantDifferent
AD104-400-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
ArchitectureDifferent
Ada Lovelace
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
5 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
35,800 million
6,200 million
DensityDifferent
121.8M / mm²
14.2M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
294 mm²
438 mm²

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Release DateDifferent
Jan 3rd, 2023
Oct 24th, 2013
AvailabilityDifferent
Jan 5th, 2023
N/A
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 40
Volcanic Islands(R9 200)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 30
Sea Islands
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 50
Pirate Islands
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
799 USD
549 USD
Current PriceDifferent
Amazon/Newegg
N/A
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
45 in our database
147 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Base ClockDifferent
2310 MHz
N/A
Boost ClockDifferent
2610 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
1313 MHz21 Gbps effective
1250 MHz5 Gbps effective
GPU ClockDifferent
N/A
1000 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
4 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
192 bit
512 bit
BandwidthDifferent
504.2 GB/s
320.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Shading UnitsDifferent
7680
2816
TMUsDifferent
240
176
ROPsDifferent
80
64
SM CountDifferent
60
N/A
Tensor CoresDifferent
240
N/A
RT CoresDifferent
60
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
48 MB
1024 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
44

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Pixel RateDifferent
208.8 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
626.4 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
40.09 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
40.09 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
626.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
704.0 GFLOPS (1:8)

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
285 mm11.2 inches
275 mm10.8 inches
HeightDifferent
112 mm4.4 inches
109 mm4.3 inches
WidthDifferent
42 mm1.7 inches
36 mm1.4 inches
TDPDifferent
285 W
290 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG141 SKU 331
109-C67157-00_02, 109-C67157-00C_03

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiAMD Radeon R9 290X
DirectXDifferent
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
2.1
VulkanDifferent
1.3
1.2.170
CUDADifferent
8.9
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
6.5

Comparison Summary

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