Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X2
GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2014
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
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1695 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2x 5,632 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
18,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
580 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
325.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5400 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
345.6 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
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OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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