GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking290not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10066
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.91no data
Power efficiency4.56no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiAD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date24 October 2013 (11 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549 no data

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 cores281618176
Core clock speedno data2325 MHz
Boost clock speed947 MHz2565 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rate176.01,457
Floating-point processing power5.632 TFLOPS93.24 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs176568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length275 mm336 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount4 GB24 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s1.15 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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HDMI++
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
UVD+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 600 Watt

R9 290X has 140% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Ti, on the other hand, has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290X and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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