AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

Lower TDP (215W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +60%

9.062 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +157%

10095

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

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

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 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

40

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.3 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

283.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.12 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.062 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

283.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

TU104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

TU104-410-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

545 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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