NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +378%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 50

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Hawaii

GB206

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.3

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