AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 6 months late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060
+295%
19.18 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
GeForce RTX 5060
+271%
13735
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
May 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2280 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
2560
Shading Units
3840
160
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
145W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GB206
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
181 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
