GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

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AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 9070 XT

CORE STATE Navi 48

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2970 MHz

TDP 304 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 4.0

nm

PROCESS 4 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

28,243

N/A

geekbench_opencl

24,008

160,317

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

7,260

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

184,026

passmark_directx_10

N/A

154

passmark_directx_11

N/A

292

passmark_directx_12

N/A

78

passmark_directx_9

N/A

353

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,328

passmark_g3d

N/A

26,795

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

15,864

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 M290X

RX 9070 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

4,096 +220.0%

Shaders

1,280

4,096 +220.0%

TMUs

80

256 +220.0%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

20

64 +220.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1660 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2970 MHz

Game Clock

—

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

2518 MHz 20.1 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

644.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

512 KB

8 MB

L3 Cache

—

64 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

380.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

760.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

48.66 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

1.521 TFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

97.32 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

64

Matrix Cores

—

128

Power

TDP

100 W

304 W

TDP (W)

100

304 +204.0%

Suggested PSU

—

700 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

Launch Price

—

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Solar System

Navi III

Successor

Polaris Mobile

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