
amd
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory2560
Cores320 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 290

nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR6
Memory3072
Cores272 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

AMD Radeon R9 290
Radeon R9 290
$399 • Nov 2013
GeForce RTX 4060
$299 • May 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Specs Comparison
Specification | AMD Radeon R9 290 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
TDP | 275 W | 115 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | N/A | 2460 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 272 GB/s |
Process Size | 28nm | 5nm |
Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
Shading Units | 2560 | 3072 |
RT Cores | N/A | 24 |
TMUs | 160 | 96 |
ROPs | 64 | 48 |
Memory Bus | 512-bit | 128-bit |
Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 2125 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 60.61 GPixel/s | 118.1 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 320 GTexel/s | 272 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 4.849 GFLOPS | 15.11 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 24.00 MB |
Die Size | 438 mm² | 159 mm² |
Transistors | 6200 Million | 18900 Million |
Required PSU | 600 W | 300 W |
Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 12-pin |
Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks


3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R9 290
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 290
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060


GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 290
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 290
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon R9 290
AMD • 4GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR6
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