AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2025
Jan 2014
Generation
Navi IV
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1330 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
20
Shading Units
3584
1280
TMUs
224
80
ROPs
128
32
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
56
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L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
8 MB
512 KB
L3 Cache
64 MB
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Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 48
Neptune
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT(215-176600331)
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
53.9 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
357 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
220W
100W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.8
6.5 (5.1)
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.