NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2025
Jun 2014
Generation
GeForce 50
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2407 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
345.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
-
Shading Units
4608
2816
TMUs
144
176
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
32 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB206
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
21.9 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
181 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
580W
Suggested PSU
450 W
950 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
4x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.8
6.3