AMD Radeon R9 290X VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

amd

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon R9 290X

N/A Oct 2013 View Details

nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR6

Memory

1920

Cores

336 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 2060

N/A Jan 2019 View Details

AMD Radeon R9 290X

4GB GDDR5 290W N/A Oct 2013

Radeon R9 290X

$549 • Oct 2013

GeForce RTX 2060

$349 • Jan 2019

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

6GB GDDR6 160W N/A Jan 2019

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon R9 290X	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Memory Size	4 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
TDP	290 W	160 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	N/A	1680 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	336 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	12nm
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Turing
Shading Units	2816	1920
RT Cores	N/A	30
TMUs	176	120
ROPs	64	48
Memory Bus	512-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	1250 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	64 GPixel/s	80.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320 GTexel/s	336 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	5.632 GFLOPS	6.451 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	1.00 MB	3.00 MB
Die Size	438 mm²	445 mm²
Transistors	6200 Million	10800 Million
Required PSU	600 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
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

3819

AMD Radeon R9 290X

7379 (+93%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

43410

AMD Radeon R9 290X

78934 (+82%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

89.8 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

8530

AMD Radeon R9 290X

14122 (+66%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Game Benchmarks Comparison (51 benchmarks)

Trine 4 The Nightmare Prince

7 2019 • Action, Adventure, Indie • Frozenbyte

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+96%)

AVG 131 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+82%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+91%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Chernobylite Complete Edition Background

Chernobylite Complete Edition

8 2019 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation • The Farm 51

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+145%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+155%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+117%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 12 FPS

MIN 5 FPS

Winner

Loser

Devil's Hunt

8.1 2019 • Action, Adventure, Indie • Layopi Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+88%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+85%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+76%)

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

Beyond Two Souls

7 2020 • Action, Adventure • Quantic Dream

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+71%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+94%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+150%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

Winner

Loser

Wolfenstein Youngblood

7.3 2019 • Action • Machine Games, Arkane Studios

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+344%)

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+312%)

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 2060 (+329%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Sinking City

7 2021 • Action, Adventure • Frogwares

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+105%)

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+90%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+76%)

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Wins!

Based on 51 benchmarks across 17 games

Avg FPS

Radeon R9 290X

+86.6%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2060