NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (184W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +27%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

2816

136

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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