Radeon R9 290X and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
16367
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
December 2021
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1650 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2176
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
184 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
224.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-