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

1474 points

13240 points

798% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

41 FPS

310 FPS

268 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

156 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS

229 FPS

190 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

16 FPS

125 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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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

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 597

27th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

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

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 our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390X at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5070 is faster than the Radeon R9 390X.