AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2014
Jan 2019
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1353 MHz
Base Clock
-
960 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
192bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
259.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
1920
TMUs
176
120
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
240
RT Cores
-
30

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
144.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
4.608 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.216 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
TU106B
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
445 mm²

Board Design

TDP
580W
115W
Suggested PSU
950 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
CUDA
-
7.5