Radeon R9 290X and RTX A2000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs RTX A2000
Radeon R9 290X
7648
RTX A2000
14164
Radeon R9 290X
RTX A2000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
August 2021
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
None
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1200 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
3328
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
124.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-