Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce RTX 4070
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce RTX 4070
27789
Radeon R9 290
GeForce RTX 4070
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Hawaii
AD104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
April 2023
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2475 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1920 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
35,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
455.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
504.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3