AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +53%

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce RTX 2070 +140%

8861

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

TU106

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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