Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
16367
Radeon R9 290
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii
TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
December 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1650 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2176
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
184 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
224.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3