AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +312%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

2816

Shading Units

4608

176

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GB206

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

6.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

438 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

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CUDA

10.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.8

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