AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +27%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/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

580W

TDP

175W

950 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

4x 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

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