GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Radeon R9 290X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated87
Place by popularitynot in top-10020
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data47.86
Power efficiencyno data17.68
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameHawaiiTU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 June 2014 (10 years ago)9 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 $399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores28162176
Core clock speed1000 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate176.0224.4
Floating-point processing power5.632 TFLOPS7.181 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs176136
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data34

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pin1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 June 2014 9 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 2060 Super has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 231.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce RTX 2060 Super. We've got no test results to judge.


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