AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Apr 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
735 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1560 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
—
Shading Units
2560
6144
TMUs
160
192
ROPs
64
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
48
Tensor Cores
—
192
RT Cores
—
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
149.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
299.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
19.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
299.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
19.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GA104
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
GA104-875-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
140W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
11,079
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
5,367
OctaneBench
—
352
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.