Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

N18E-G1 MAX-Q TU106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2014

January 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1185 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

975 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

2x 2800 Million

10,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1920

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

11000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (FL 11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

VR Ready