AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 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

65 points
13092 points
20041% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

25 FPS
305 FPS
281 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS
156 FPS
133 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

30 FPS
227 FPS
197 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
124 FPS
110 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4254 points
5256 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
2325 MHz
121% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz
2512 MHz
139% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
672 GB/s
75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W
250 W
10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s
201 Gigapixels/s
199% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

184.8 Gigatexels/s
482.3 Gigatexels/s
160% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
6144
118% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
192
9% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

533rd of 586
28th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon R9 390X vs GeForce RTX 5070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390X in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 is better than the Radeon R9 390X.

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