NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +14%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +90%

7486

Radeon R9 290X

3934

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1920

Shading Units

2816

120

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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