AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +168%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

May 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1830 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2816

Shading Units

3072

176

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

115W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

159 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

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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