Radeon R9 290X vs RTX 2000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2130MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (70W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5632
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+113%
12000
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Feb 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1620 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2130 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
22
2816
Shading Units
2816
176
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
88
-
RT Cores
22
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.2 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
187.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.00 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.00 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
187.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
70W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
AD107
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
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