AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points

12174 points

534% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

44 FPS

289 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

141 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS

206 FPS

167 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

114 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3950 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43704 points

168368 points

285% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51251 points

158623 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

2190 MHz

119% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

2430 MHz

143% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

220% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

9% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

203% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

160 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

240% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.12 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

580% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

7168

180% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

224

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 586

31st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 390 vs GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the Radeon R9 390 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon R9 390 has a slightly lower TDP at 275 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the Radeon R9 390.