GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R9 M290X
CORE STATE
Neptune
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 9070 GRE
CORE STATE
Navi 48
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2790 MHz
TDP
220 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 4.0
PROCESS
4 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M290X
RX 9070 GRE
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
3,072
+140.0%
Shaders
1,280
3,072
+140.0%
TMUs
80
192
+140.0%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
20
48
+140.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1420 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
2790 MHz
Game Clock
—
2220 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
12,288
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
432.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
L3 Cache
—
48 MB
L0 Cache
—
32 KB per WGP
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
267.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
535.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
34.28 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
1,071.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
68.57 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
48
Matrix Cores
—
96
Power
TDP
100 W
220 W
TDP (W)
100
220
+120.0%
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 4.0
GPU Name
Neptune
Navi 48
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Navi IV
(RX 9000)
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
53,900 million
Die Size
212 mm²
357 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
151.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Solar System
Navi III
Successor
Polaris Mobile
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