Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (500W vs 575W)
GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2407MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
18944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
GeForce RTX 5090
+1728%
104800
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jan 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2017 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
170
2816
Shading Units
21760
176
TMUs
680
64
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
680
-
RT Cores
170
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
575W
900 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GB202
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
6.3
Shader Model
6.8
