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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1200MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile +130%
4.608 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2019
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

960 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz

Memory

6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
16
30
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
1024
120
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
32
240
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
144.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
9.216 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.608 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

TU106
GPU Name
Pitcairn
N18E-G1-KD-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.8 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
445 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
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