NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 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, 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 119.1x more texture fill rate: 259.2 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • 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
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 4 GB
Launch date 27 May 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Texture fill rate 259.2 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 580 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 2x 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 83% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 3072
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 3072

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 13660
PassMark - G2D Mark 584
Geekbench - OpenCL 83103
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19377
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19377
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 2.0
Code name TU104 Hawaii
Launch date 27 May 2019 24 June 2014
Place in performance rating 171 282
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1350 MHz
Core clock speed 600 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 259.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 16.59 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.294 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072 2x 2816
Pixel fill rate 86.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 259.2 GTexel/s 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 13600 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,632 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 4x 8-pin
Width IGP

API support

OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan
DirectX 12.0 (12_0)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5