GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) and GeForce RTX 4090, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)
2014
3.04

RTX 4090 outperforms R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) by a whopping 3189% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking7711
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.83
Power efficiencyno data15.23
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameKaveri SpectreAD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 January 2014 (10 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51216384
Core clock speed720 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data450 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,290
Floating-point processing powerno data82.58 TFLOPS
ROPsno data176
TMUsno data512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data304 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data24 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.01 TB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 3.04
RTX 4090 100.00
+3189%

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 2302
RTX 4090 104598
+4444%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 1616
RTX 4090 73447
+4445%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 10341
RTX 4090 260357
+2418%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 91999
RTX 4090 771257
+738%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD18
−1339%
259
+1339%
1440p6−7
−3233%
200
+3233%
4K4−5
−3475%
143
+3475%

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data6.17
1440pno data8.00
4Kno data11.18

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−3650%
225
+3650%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
−2511%
235
+2511%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−28600%
287
+28600%
Battlefield 5 5−6
−4780%
240−250
+4780%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
−1614%
120−130
+1614%
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−3600%
222
+3600%
Far Cry 5 6−7
−1867%
110−120
+1867%
Far Cry New Dawn 8−9
−2413%
200−210
+2413%
Forza Horizon 4 16−18
−1719%
290−300
+1719%
Hitman 3 8−9
−1513%
120−130
+1513%
Horizon Zero Dawn 21−24
−1430%
350−400
+1430%
Metro Exodus 4−5
−3775%
150−160
+3775%
Red Dead Redemption 2 7−8
−1671%
120−130
+1671%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
−3454%
450−500
+3454%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−295%
150−160
+295%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
−2156%
200−210
+2156%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−24700%
248
+24700%
Battlefield 5 5−6
−4780%
240−250
+4780%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
−1614%
120−130
+1614%
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−3467%
214
+3467%
Far Cry 5 6−7
−1867%
110−120
+1867%
Far Cry New Dawn 8−9
−2413%
200−210
+2413%
Forza Horizon 4 16−18
−1719%
290−300
+1719%
Hitman 3 8−9
−1513%
120−130
+1513%
Horizon Zero Dawn 21−24
−1430%
350−400
+1430%
Metro Exodus 4−5
−3775%
150−160
+3775%
Red Dead Redemption 2 7−8
−1671%
120−130
+1671%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
−4115%
548
+4115%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 27
−793%
240−250
+793%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−295%
150−160
+295%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
−1889%
179
+1889%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−21900%
220
+21900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
−1614%
120−130
+1614%
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−3400%
210
+3400%
Far Cry 5 6−7
−1867%
110−120
+1867%
Forza Horizon 4 16−18
−1719%
290−300
+1719%
Hitman 3 8−9
−1513%
120−130
+1513%
Horizon Zero Dawn 21−24
−1613%
394
+1613%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
−4062%
541
+4062%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6
−4983%
305
+4983%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−292%
153
+292%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 7−8
−1671%
120−130
+1671%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 5−6
−3220%
160−170
+3220%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−2140%
110−120
+2140%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−5067%
155
+5067%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−4000%
80−85
+4000%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−7600%
154
+7600%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−2700%
80−85
+2700%
Hitman 3 8−9
−1625%
130−140
+1625%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−4750%
388
+4750%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3
−13300%
268
+13300%
Watch Dogs: Legion 18−20
−1233%
240−250
+1233%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−2050%
120−130
+2050%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 1−2
−8700%
85−90
+8700%
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
−3350%
65−70
+3350%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−5900%
120
+5900%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−11900%
120
+11900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−5100%
50−55
+5100%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%
Forza Horizon 4 1−2
−25500%
250−260
+25500%
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2
−11600%
117
+11600%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−2675%
110−120
+2675%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 183
+0%
183
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
+0%
270−280
+0%
Metro Exodus 152
+0%
152
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 504
+0%
504
+0%

4K
High Preset

Hitman 3 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 105
+0%
105
+0%
Metro Exodus 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 281
+0%
281
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 80
+0%
80
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 282
+0%
282
+0%

This is how R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) and RTX 4090 compete in popular games:

  • RTX 4090 is 1339% faster in 1080p
  • RTX 4090 is 3233% faster in 1440p
  • RTX 4090 is 3475% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RTX 4090 is 28600% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RTX 4090 is ahead in 62 tests (86%)
  • there's a draw in 10 tests (14%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.04 100.00
Recency 14 January 2014 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm

RTX 4090 has a 3189.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4090 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) in performance tests.


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AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)
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