GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnAD106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 November 2014 (10 years ago)April 2024 (recently)

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 cores10243072
Core clock speed850 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate62.40236.2
Floating-point processing power1.997 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs6496
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-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 amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1365 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.7 GB/s272.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 115 Watt

R9 M290X Mac Edition has 43.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 AD106, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 4060 AD106. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
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