NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 580 Watt
2.6x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.852 vs 19.441

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed	1365 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.852 vs 19.441

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

2.9x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 1920
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 6 GB

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 1920
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

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

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

21.852

19.441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	14150
PassMark - G2D Mark	750
Geekbench - OpenCL	70649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	220.337
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3131.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.852	19.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1141.283
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7489

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106	Hawaii
Launch date	7 January 2019	24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	$1,399
Place in performance rating	150	282
Price now	$349.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	62.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1680 MHz
Core clock speed	1365 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1920	2x 2816
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	2
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s