Radeon R9 290 and RTX A2000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs RTX A2000
Radeon R9 290
8336
RTX A2000
14164
Radeon R9 290
RTX A2000
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
August 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
3328
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
124.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3