AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +14%

6.451 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce RTX 2060 +90%

7483

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2816

Shading Units

1920

176

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

160W

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 XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-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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