NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
7.3x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 580 Watt
2.6x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 960 MHz
2.9x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 1920

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 960 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 1920

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5904
PassMark - G2D Mark	540
PassMark - G3D Mark	11355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106B	Hawaii
Launch date	29 January 2019	24 June 2014
Place in performance rating	204	282
Price now	$349.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	62.74
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	960 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1920	2x 2816
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s