Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce RTX 4090
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce RTX 4090
39778
Radeon R9 290
GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Hawaii
AD102-300-A1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
September 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2520 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
2235 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
16384
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
450 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
1,290
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
1,008 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
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3