NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2025
Oct 2013
Generation
GeForce 50
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2325 MHz
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Boost Clock
2512 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
512bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
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Shading Units
6144
2816
TMUs
192
176
ROPs
80
64
Tensor Cores
192
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RT Cores
48
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
48 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB205
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
31.1 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
263 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
290W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.4
1.2.170
CUDA
12.0
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Shader Model
6.8
6.5
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
22,544
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
10,789
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3DMark Speed Way
5,896
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Blender
6,218
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.