RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation vs Radeon R9 390X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release dateno data21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores23072
Core clock speedno data930 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data139.7
Floating-point processing powerno data8.94 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data96
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 type512GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width5400 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 GB/s

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR512 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390X2 and RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 390X2 is a desktop card while RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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