AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2130MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+147%
12 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+120%
8147
Graphics Card
Nov 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
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
22
2560
Shading Units
2816
160
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
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.2 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
187.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.00 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.00 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
187.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
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 PRO
(215-0852020)
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
