Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290X2

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Hawaii

TU106B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2014

June 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1125 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 5,632 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

10,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

115 Watt

Texture fill rate

176.0

162.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

345.6 GB/s

352.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2