Radeon R9 290X and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Quadro RTX A6000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Ampere
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2013
October 2020
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1800 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
625.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-