NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

Lower TDP (175W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +32%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU106-400A-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

175W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 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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