AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
640 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5.632 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
+27%
7.181 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jul 2019
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1470 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1650 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
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
34
2816
Shading Units
2176
176
TMUs
136
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
272
-
RT Cores
34
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
224.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
14.36 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.181 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
224.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
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 XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
TU106-410-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
