Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2014

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x 2800 Million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

317.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (FL 11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2